Alyson Huber
- Democratic
Author
(1) 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 (EIR) 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. The 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. For projects whose environmental impacts can not be mitigated to less than significance, existing law authorizes a lead agency to find that specified overriding economic, legal, social, technological, or other benefits of the project outweigh the significant effects on the environment. If an EIR has been prepared and certified for a program, plan, policy, or ordinance, a lead agency is required to use a tiered EIR for a later project if the lead agency determines that the later project is consistent with the program, plan, policy, or ordinance, and satisfies other criteria. This bill would authorize a lead agency, until January 1, 2016, to incorporate by reference a finding of overriding consideration made in a prior EIR for a later project if specified conditions are met, including that the lead agency determines that the later project's significant impacts on the environment are not greater than or different from those identified in the prior EIR. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 21094 of the Public Resources Code proposed by this bill and SB 1456, to be operative only if this bill and SB 1456 are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 432, Statutes of 2010.
Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 57. Noes 10. Page 6942.)
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 1. Page 4825.)
Read second time. To third reading.
Read third time, amended. To second reading.
Read second time. To third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
(Received August 13 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14).)
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 2).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 31. Page 1982.)
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 28).
Read second time. To third reading.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 20).
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB231 | HTML |
| 02/05/09 - Introduced | |
| 04/29/09 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/18/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/26/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/23/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/09/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/20/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/13/10 - Enrolled | |
| 09/29/10 - Chaptered |
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