republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2091.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public access: nonmotorized recreation."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2091"
citation: "California AB 2091 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Environmental Quality Act", "exemption", "nonmotorized recreation", "public access"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d475e96-d73f-45b7-addd-43f3d4461f36"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091"
source_hash: "55c3c940a0d7a212cf10781e15dd76b6b7b9071d7e25bdc204be16960ffb094e"
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 AB 2091 (20232024) — 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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/05/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209199INT)
2. **02/28/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209198AMD)
3. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209197AMD)
4. **06/27/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209196AMD)
5. **08/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209195AMD)
6. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209193CHP)
7. **AB2091** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091)
8. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2091&version=20230AB209194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Water, Parks, and Wildlife] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2091 Grayson By Glazer — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2091 Grayson Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2091 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grayson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2024-02-20** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and W., P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5158.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-22** Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 377, 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/1d475e96-d73f-45b7-addd-43f3d4461f36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).