CaliforniaSubdivision Map Act: action or proceeding.
What it does
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. CEQA requires that an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul specified acts or decisions of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with CEQA be commenced in accordance with specified timeframes.
More detail
Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency's processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification thereof. The act requires an action or proceeding against a decision of a local agency taken pursuant to that act to be commenced within a certain time period, as specified.
This bill would prohibit an action or proceeding to enforce the Subdivision Map Act from being maintained if certain criteria exist, including that the action or proceeding to enforce the Subdivision Map Act includes substantially similar claims or issues to claims or issues raised in an action or proceeding to enforce CEQA and the defendant in the action or proceeding to enforce the Subdivision Map Act was the defendant in the action or proceeding to enforce CEQA. The bill would provide that its provisions do not prohibit or abrogate specified actions, including the filing of timely objections to an agency's return to a writ seeking to enforce its specific mandates or timely filing of a separate action relating to the same project, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.
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History
- 2026
- Sep 30Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1024, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 30Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 8Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 30Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 1.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded SB 1256 Jones Senate Third Reading By Alanis. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB1256 Jones Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 30In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Aug 30Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 1. Page 6845.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Aug 3Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jul 2From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1).Minor
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 24Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Major
- Jun 23From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 12June 16 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Jun 8Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. GOV.Minor
- May 27In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading. Result: pass.Upper
- May 27Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4481.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Apr 30Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.Major
- Apr 29From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4095.) (April 29).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 22From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Major
- Apr 22From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3979.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Minor
- Apr 21
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 17Set for hearing April 29 in L. GOV. pending receipt.
- Apr 10Set for hearing April 21.
- Apr 8Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. GOV.Minor
- Mar 26Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Mar 26Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Mar 26April 8 hearing postponed by committee.
- Mar 25From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.Major
- Mar 10Set for hearing April 8.
- Mar 4Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and E., U & C.Minor
- Feb 20From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- Feb 19Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced