republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-91.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion: environmental leadership transit 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 (EIR) 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 91"
citation: "California SB 91 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "environmental leadership transit projects", "motel conversion", "supportive and transitional housing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df28a4b1-bbc8-4029-811f-23cd9a38be1a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91"
source_hash: "6749cbd4e3de3383b8b4be1ec30114c1b4f90df0dd87fde10ae2cc9efefe14a6"
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 91 (20232024) — California Environmental Quality Act: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion: environmental leadership transit 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 (EIR) 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. **01/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9199INT)
2. **09/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9198AMD)
3. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9196CHP)
4. **SB91** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91)
5. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB91&version=20230SB9197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB91 Umberg Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (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 and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 91 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Lowenthal — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 91 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Lowenthal — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Umberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 17.
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Set for hearing March 15.
- **2023-03-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 353.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 796.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-21** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2023-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1003.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-14** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Boerner.
- **2023-08-14** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2927.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-05** Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3252.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2736.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 732, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df28a4b1-bbc8-4029-811f-23cd9a38be1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).