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type: "Bill"
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title: "Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption."
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description: "(1) 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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 154"
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citation: "California AB 154 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
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subjects: ["CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityActexemption", "Greenhousegases", "climate-relatedfinancialrisk", "climatecorporateaccountability", "regulations"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-01-08"
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last_action: "2025-10-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5efb6745-9d71-4bd0-b24f-960c953a213b"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB154"
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source_hash: "9224e60bcd9894f503d8bb503dddf918736ba03d658095c2254739e3bf79b69b"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 154 (20252026) — Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption.
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(1) 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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/08/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB154&version=20250AB15499INT)
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2. **09/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB154&version=20250AB15498AMD)
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3. **10/11/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB154&version=20250AB15496CHP)
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4. **AB154** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB154)
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5. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB154&version=20250AB15497ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB154 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener — **29–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 154 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL — **71–1** (pass) · lower
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- AB 154 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — **53–17** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Committee on Budget — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-09** From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
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- **2025-02-03** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-17** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2025-03-17** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2025-03-17** (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 643.)
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- **2025-03-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 740.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-02** Referred to Com. on B. & F. R. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-08** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
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- **2025-09-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (September 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 2949.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-12** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3429.)
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- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 3430.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 609, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5efb6745-9d71-4bd0-b24f-960c953a213b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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