republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-704.md

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Bill	Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976: industrial developments: oil and gas developments: refineries: petrochemical facilities: offshore wind.	(1) The California Coastal Act of 1976 regulates development along the state's coast. The act requires that coastal-dependent industrial facilities be encouraged to locate or expand within existing sites and be permitted reasonable long-term growth where consistent with the act, and, where new or expanded coastal-dependent industrial facilities cannot feasibly be accommodated consistent with other policies of the act, they may nevertheless be permitted if (A) alternative locations are infeasible or more environmentally damaging, (B) to do otherwise would adversely affect the public welfare, and (C) adverse environmental effects are mitigated to the maximum extent feasible.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 704	California SB 704 (20232024)	bill	California Coastal Act of 1976 Coastal resources industrial developments offshore wind oil and gas developments petrochemical facilities refineries	enacted	Min	7	29	10	2023-02-16	2023-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ddee5606-e938-4bdc-bfda-7dbce3346b16	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB704	96cb04e96f88f996886c9c3ccbd3d13fd71eeb3b22ae9d300c47837da27ba485	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 704 (20232024) — Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976: industrial developments: oil and gas developments: refineries: petrochemical facilities: offshore wind.

(1) The California Coastal Act of 1976 regulates development along the state's coast. The act requires that coastal-dependent industrial facilities be encouraged to locate or expand within existing sites and be permitted reasonable long-term growth where consistent with the act, and, where new or expanded coastal-dependent industrial facilities cannot feasibly be accommodated consistent with other policies of the act, they may nevertheless be permitted if (A) alternative locations are infeasible or more environmentally damaging, (B) to do otherwise would adversely affect the public welfare, and (C) adverse environmental effects are mitigated to the maximum extent feasible.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB704 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 704 Min Senate Third Reading By Pellerin — 68–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB704 Min Concurrence — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB704 Min Concurrence — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB704 Min Concurrence Motion To Reconsider — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 31–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Min — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2023-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 899.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 1348.) 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
• 2023-06-20 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
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (August 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 5. Page 3140.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 2616.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-12 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Min.
• 2023-09-12 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2691.)
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2692.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 292, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ddee5606-e938-4bdc-bfda-7dbce3346b16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).