California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.
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 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 676 (20252026) — California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.
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 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.
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Limón — primary (person)
Archuleta — coauthor (person)
Blakespear — author (person)
Bryan — coauthor (person)
Caballero — coauthor (person)
Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
Cortese — principal coauthor (person)
Grayson — coauthor (person)
Macedo — coauthor (person)
Pacheco — coauthor (person)
Pérez — coauthor (person)
Reyes — coauthor (person)
Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
Sanchez — coauthor (person)
Stern — principal coauthor (person)
Umberg — coauthor (person)
Zbur — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2025-03-11 Set for hearing April 2.
2025-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 635.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2025-04-10 Set for hearing April 22.
2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 836.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-04-25 Set for hearing May 5.
2025-05-05 May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1209.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-05-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-29 From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Gonzalez.
2025-05-29 Ordered to third reading.
2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1453.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2025-06-09 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. referral-committee
2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-07-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-07-16 Coauthors revised.
2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3008.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2717.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 550, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25e85e5c-6a6b-4104-b4f7-2f645d380cd4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).