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type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation."
description: "(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify 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. Existing law exempts certain activities from CEQA, including a project for the institution or increase of passenger or commuter services on rail or highway rights-of-way already in use, including modernization of existing stations and parking facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 788"
citation: "California SB 788 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Transportation and Housing"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a8d132f-4e3d-492f-894e-e9e8e0c93cf6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788"
source_hash: "d0b4beafd3668d191c0f450b1582956efcbc2d91ab074532c0663c13e73e26cc"
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 SB 788 (20132014) — Transportation.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify 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. Existing law exempts certain activities from CEQA, including a project for the institution or increase of passenger or commuter services on rail or highway rights-of-way already in use, including modernization of existing stations and parking facilities.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788&version=20130SB78899INT)
2. **04/18/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788&version=20130SB78898AMD)
3. **06/10/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788&version=20130SB78897AMD)
4. **08/14/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788&version=20130SB78896AMD)
5. **10/03/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788&version=20130SB78894CHP)
6. **SB788** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788)
7. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB788&version=20130SB78895ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **110** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB788 Committee on T. & H. — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **90** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources to Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB788 Committee on T. & H. — **380** (pass) · upper
- SB 788 T. & H. Senate Third Reading By LOWENTHAL — **771** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Transportation and Housing — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2013-04-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 760.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-03** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2013-05-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 948.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-21** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3008.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2294.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2013-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 523, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a8d132f-4e3d-492f-894e-e9e8e0c93cf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).