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Bill	California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public access: nonmotorized recreation.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1139	California AB 1139 (20252026)	bill	CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct exemption nonmotorizedrecreation publicaccess	enacted	Rogers	6	24	8	2025-02-20	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/4c816bf3-ae19-423e-9835-249553380eba	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1139	41c51e103d0628627a44a88f4830a29df9a6b06a0fefd5f56ddf3945c33f031b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1139 (20252026) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public access: nonmotorized recreation.

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. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1139 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Water, Parks, and Wildlife] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1139 Rogers Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1139 Rogers Assembly Third Reading — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rogers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and W. P., & W. referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on W. P., & W. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on W. P., & W. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1656.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-04 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2763.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 391, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c816bf3-ae19-423e-9835-249553380eba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).