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type: "Bill"
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title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects."
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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."
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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: "SB 71"
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citation: "California SB 71 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct", "exemptions", "transitprojects"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
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version_count: 11
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action_count: 39
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2025-01-14"
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last_action: "2025-10-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d30d98d9-e7dd-4c96-a3a6-14db32ba6172"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71"
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source_hash: "11115690f1700a4792b316af0275ab525150f8315f1623d67f632fe30ee95445"
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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 SB 71 (20252026) — California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.
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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.
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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. **01/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7199INT)
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2. **03/13/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7198AMD)
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3. **03/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7197AMD)
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4. **05/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7196AMD)
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5. **05/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7195AMD)
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6. **06/30/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7194AMD)
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7. **07/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7193AMD)
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8. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7192AMD)
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9. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7190CHP)
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10. **SB71** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71)
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11. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB71&version=20250SB7191ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading SB71 Wiener et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Transportation] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Unfinished Business SB71 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 71 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Ward — **78–1** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Wiener — primary (person)
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- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
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- Chen — coauthor (person)
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- Lee — coauthor (person)
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- Ward — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2025-01-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14.
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- **2025-01-29** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-07** Set for hearing March 19.
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- **2025-03-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 421.) (March 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-28** Set for hearing April 8.
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- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 710.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-10** Set for hearing April 21.
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- **2025-04-16** April 21 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-04-17** Set for hearing April 28.
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- **2025-04-28** April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1190.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-29** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-29** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2025-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1451.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-09** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-03** July 7 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-07-17** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
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- **2025-07-17** (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
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- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 14). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3082.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2820.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 742, 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/d30d98d9-e7dd-4c96-a3a6-14db32ba6172`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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