republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-1361.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness."
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. 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1361"
citation: "California SB 1361 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness", "exemption", "local agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blakespear"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-08-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18126d96-20e1-468b-91c8-0915b44dbca4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1361"
source_hash: "6ee49ea38ce1688b2426945c770f6cbf08a4498dfcf3c6265f62e11688c760eb"
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 1361 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.

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. 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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1361&version=20230SB136199INT)
2. **04/08/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1361&version=20230SB136198AMD)
3. **08/19/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1361&version=20230SB136196CHP)
4. **SB1361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1361)
5. **08/07/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1361&version=20230SB136197ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1361 Blakespear Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blakespear — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-08** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2024-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3467.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Set for hearing April 16.
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3633.) (April 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3771.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-13** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6201.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-05** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2024-08-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2024-08-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-08-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 188, 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/18126d96-20e1-468b-91c8-0915b44dbca4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).