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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: local agencies: filing of notices of determination or exemption.	The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires, among other things, a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 69	California SB 69 (20232024)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act filing of notices of determination or exemption local agencies	enacted	Cortese	8	30	9	2023-01-05	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/1a0df54c-f2d7-45e4-932a-f754059769c1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB69	8acc679afdcb96017e8ab3f081a7bbba7dd19998735c9f5355a8545f82e43fa6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 69 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: local agencies: filing of notices of determination or exemption.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires, among other things, a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report 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.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 01/05/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/22/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB69 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB69 Cortese et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 69 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Boerner — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB69 Cortese et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)
• Boerner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-01-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-01-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 5.
• 2023-01-18 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-02-10 Set for hearing March 15.
• 2023-03-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 352.) (March 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 685.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-14 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2023-04-24 April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1159.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1358.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 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
• 2023-06-22 June 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2973.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-07 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2465.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 860, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a0df54c-f2d7-45e4-932a-f754059769c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).