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| Bill | Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption. | (1) 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. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20252026 | AB 154 | California AB 154 (20252026) |
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California AB 154 (20252026) — Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption.
(1) 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.
- 01/08/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 09/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- AB154 (committee substitute) — source
- 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Do pass — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB154 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener — 29–0 (pass) · upper
- AB 154 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL — 71–1 (pass) · lower
- AB 154 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 53–17 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-08 Read first time. To print.
reading-1 - 2025-01-09 From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
- 2025-02-03 Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
referral-committee - 2025-03-17 Withdrawn from committee.
- 2025-03-17 Ordered to second reading.
- 2025-03-17 (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 643.)
- 2025-03-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2025-03-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 740.)
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2025-03-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1 - 2025-04-02 Referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
referral-committee - 2025-09-08 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
- 2025-09-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2025-09-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (September 10).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2025-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 2949.).
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- 2025-09-12 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3429.)
- 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 3430.).
amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 609, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5efb6745-9d71-4bd0-b24f-960c953a213b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).