CaliforniaCalifornia Environmental Quality Act: exemption: egress route projects: fire safety.
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.
More detail
This bill would, until January 1, 2032, exempt from CEQA egress route projects undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision without a secondary egress route if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are met. The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to public comments before determining that a project is exempt. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and with the clerk of the county in which the project will be located.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Jul 16In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.Latest
- Jul 3Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.Major
- Jul 2From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 18Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W.Minor
- Jun 9In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Jun 6
- Vote recorded AB 66 Tangipa Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 5Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 1. Page 2115.)Passed Assembly
- May 27Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 23From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 9In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Mar 25From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Mar 24
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 25Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.Minor
- Feb 24From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.Major
- Feb 24Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.Minor
- Jan 6Read first time.Minor
- 2024
- Dec 4From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- Dec 3Introduced. To print.Introduced