republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2565.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment: CEQA: lead agency: documents."
description: "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. CEQA authorizes a lead agency to charge and collect a reasonable fee from a person proposing a project that is subject to CEQA to recover the estimated costs incurred by the lead agency in conducting the environmental review."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2565"
citation: "California AB 2565 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment: CEQA: lead agency: documents."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ammiano"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-19"
last_action: "2010-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8be146b2-d4c4-4345-8ef3-498b6374eb87"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565"
source_hash: "6fce2fdb51513796dcdb54ccabe5d65a99f7d53a99e67c2f53ae2bd5722ea4be"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2565 (20092010) — Environment: CEQA: lead agency: documents.

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. CEQA authorizes a lead agency to charge and collect a reasonable fee from a person proposing a project that is subject to CEQA to recover the estimated costs incurred by the lead agency in conducting the environmental review.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565&version=20090AB256599INT)
2. **04/05/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565&version=20090AB256598AMD)
3. **06/17/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565&version=20090AB256597AMD)
4. **08/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565&version=20090AB256595CHP)
5. **AB2565** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565)
6. **08/12/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2565&version=20090AB256596ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2565 Ammiano — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2565 AMMIANO Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2565 AMMIANO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ammiano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2010-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2010-03-18** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-22** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4943.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-06-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4376.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 6095.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
- **2010-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8be146b2-d4c4-4345-8ef3-498b6374eb87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).