California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial procedures: record of proceedings: judicial streamlining.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
California SB 149 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial procedures: record of proceedings: judicial streamlining.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB149 Caballero et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
SB 149 Caballero Third Reading Urgency Amend By DAVIES Set #1 Motion to Lay on the Table By REYES — 56–13 (pass) · lower
SB 149 Caballero Third Reading Urgency By BAUER-KAHAN — 68–0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading SB149 B. & F.R. — 29–8 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Caballero — primary (person)
Becker — author (person)
Robert Rivas — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-01-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2023-01-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
2023-01-25 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
2023-03-16 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 357.)
2023-03-16 Ordered to second reading.
2023-03-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-03-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 501.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-03-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2023-03-30 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
2023-06-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2023-06-27 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
2023-06-27 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
2023-06-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-07-03 Amendments by Assembly Member Davies tabled on motion by Assembly Member Reyes. (Ayes 56. Noes 13. Page 2539.)
2023-07-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 2540.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-07-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2023-07-05 Urgency clause adopted.
2023-07-05 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1897.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2023-07-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-07-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 60, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0fab1d26-4af9-4284-9aa9-f89feb10807d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).