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Authors Padilla  
Subject California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: streamlining.
Relating To relating to environmental quality.
Title An act to add Sections 21185.5 and 21185.6 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
Last Action Dt 2025-07-07
State Amended Assembly
Status In Committee Process
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Bill Actions
2025-07-15     July 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-07-07     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
2025-06-16     Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
2025-06-05     In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-06-04     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1515.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-27     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23     From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1209.) (May 23).
2025-05-23     Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-05-20     Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-19     May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-09     Set for hearing May 19.
2025-05-01     Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-30     From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 969.) (April 30).
2025-04-25     Set for hearing April 30.
2025-04-24     Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
2025-04-24     Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-24     April 28 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-23     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 867.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-04-10     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
2025-04-02     Set for hearing April 23.
2025-03-20     April 2 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-11     Set for hearing April 2.
2025-03-05     Referred to Com. on E.Q.
2025-02-24     Read first time.
2025-02-24     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-21     Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2025-07-07
Amended Senate     2025-05-23
Amended Senate     2025-05-01
Amended Senate     2025-04-10
Introduced     2025-02-21
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.

The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021 authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2032, to certify environmental leadership development projects that meet specified requirements for certain streamlining benefits related to CEQA.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the urban waterfront in the County of San Diego.