republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-29.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Highway Route 710."
description: "(1) Existing law provides, notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, that the preliminary project alternative referred to as Alternative F-6 in the December 2012 Alternative Analysis Report of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is no longer deemed to be a feasible alternative for consideration in any state environmental review process for the Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 29"
citation: "California AB 29 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Highway Route 710."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41cdc822-7ac3-4925-aabe-4f36f9c9d43f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29"
source_hash: "dff798c038719eae73ca99d206f15ee4704582c8ccba59ab98f897e930056b08"
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 29 (20192020) — State Highway Route 710.

(1) Existing law provides, notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, that the preliminary project alternative referred to as Alternative F-6 in the December 2012 Alternative Analysis Report of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is no longer deemed to be a feasible alternative for consideration in any state environmental review process for the Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2999INT)
2. **05/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2998AMD)
3. **05/22/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2997AMD)
4. **08/13/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2996AMD)
5. **09/05/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2995AMD)
6. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2993CHP)
7. **AB29** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29)
8. **09/18/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB29&version=20190AB2994ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB29 Holden et al. By Leyva — **32–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 29 Holden Assembly Third Reading — **57–13** (pass) · lower
- AB 29 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **0–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)
- Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
- Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-17** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1615.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1775.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 13. Page 2007.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-19** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-09-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 2958.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-14** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3614.)
- **2019-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 6. Page 3614.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 791, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41cdc822-7ac3-4925-aabe-4f36f9c9d43f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).