republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1804.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects."
description: "(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 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1804"
citation: "California AB 1804 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da5c8b14-89c7-42c9-9ae3-b43806ce4998"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804"
source_hash: "236a860edc86cb5e5514bf732ad7ca6b627c5811a76031c38e448eecea7a74c7"
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 1804 (20172018) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects.

(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 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.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804&version=20170AB180499INT)
2. **08/17/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804&version=20170AB180498AMD)
3. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804&version=20170AB180497AMD)
4. **09/22/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804&version=20170AB180495CHP)
5. **AB1804** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804)
6. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1804&version=20170AB180496ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1804 BERMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1804 Berman et al. By Skinner — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2018-01-22** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5389.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-16** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 5342.)
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5954.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6989.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 670, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da5c8b14-89c7-42c9-9ae3-b43806ce4998`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).