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type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects."
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 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: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2199"
citation: "California AB 2199 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "exemption", "residential or mixed-use housing projects"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-07"
last_action: "2024-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74382ad1-df8c-426e-8344-2c90245bc09b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199"
source_hash: "e813cde564cd6b2abedffae95982f574735fbfdbd7b4d6147cd51cc1595ec35f"
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 2199 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential or mixed-use housing projects.
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. **02/07/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199&version=20230AB219999INT)
2. **03/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199&version=20230AB219998AMD)
3. **04/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199&version=20230AB219997AMD)
4. **06/06/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199&version=20230AB219996AMD)
5. **09/19/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199&version=20230AB219994CHP)
6. **AB2199** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199)
7. **08/26/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2199&version=20230AB219995ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 2199 Berman Consent Calendar Second Day — **630** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2199 Berman By Skinner — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 2199 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **600** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Berman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2024-03-18** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 5159.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-22** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5232.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 0. Page 6429.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74382ad1-df8c-426e-8344-2c90245bc09b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).