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Bill 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. us/states/ca California Legislature 20252026 SB 676 California SB 676 (20252026)
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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.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. 07/09/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  4. 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  5. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB676 (committee substitute) — source
  7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 120 (pass) · lower
  • Placed on suspense file — 70 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — 80 (pass) · upper
  • Unfinished Business SB676 Limón et al. Concurrence — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 120 (pass) · lower
  • SB 676 Limón Senate Third Reading By Bennett — 790 (pass) · lower
  • 3rd Reading SB676 Limón et al. — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass as amended. — 110 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass — 60 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 130 (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).