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Authors Cabaldon  
Coauthors: Pérez  
Subject California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: day care center: family daycare home: zoning.
Relating To relating to environmental quality.
Title An act to add Section 21080.68 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
Last Action Dt 2026-01-14
State Amended Senate
Status Pending Referral
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Bill Actions
2026-01-26     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-01-26     In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2026-01-21     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-01-20     From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
2026-01-14     Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-01-14     Set for hearing January 20.
2026-01-13     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
2026-01-13     From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 13).
2026-01-08     Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and E.Q.
2026-01-08     Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c) .
2026-01-07     Set for hearing January 13 in E.Q. pending receipt.
2026-01-07     Set for hearing January 12 in HUMAN S. pending receipt.
2026-01-06     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-01-05     From inactive file.
2026-01-05     Ordered to second reading.
2026-01-05     Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-06-05     Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Cabaldon.
2025-05-07     Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-06     From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 963.) (April 30).
2025-04-23     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 4. Noes 3. Page 871.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
2025-04-17     Set for hearing April 30 in E.Q. pending receipt.
2025-04-04     Set for hearing April 23.
2025-04-03     April 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-03-24     Set for hearing April 2.
2025-02-19     Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.Q.
2025-02-11     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
2025-02-10     Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Versions
Amended Senate     2026-01-14
Amended Senate     2026-01-05
Amended Senate     2025-05-07
Introduced     2025-02-10
Analyses TBD
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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.

Existing law exempts specified projects from CEQA, including a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined, that is not located in a residential area.