Committee on Budget
Author
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 the lead agency 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. Existing law makes the selection of a location for a particular campus of public higher education and the approval of a long-range development plan subject to CEQA, requires preparation of an EIR, and requires environmental effects relating to changes in enrollment levels to be considered for each campus or medical center of public higher education in the EIR prepared for the long-range development plan. Existing law makes the approval of a project on a particular campus or medical center of public higher education subject to CEQA and authorizes it to be addressed in a tiered environmental analysis based upon a long-range development plan EIR. This bill would delete the provision requiring the environmental effects relating to changes in enrollment levels be considered in the EIR prepared for the long-range development plan. The bill would provide that enrollment or changes in enrollment, by themselves, do not constitute a project for purposes of CEQA. The bill would authorize the court, if the court determines that increases in campus population exceed the projections adopted in the most recent long-range development plan and analyzed in the supporting EIR, and those increases result in significant environmental impacts, to order the campus or medical center to prepare a new, supplemental, or subsequent EIR. The bill would authorize the court, if a new, supplemental, or subsequent EIR has not been certified within 18 months of the court's order, to enjoin increases in campus population that exceed the projections adopted in the most recent long-range development plan and analyzed in the supporting EIR, as provided. The bill would specify that any injunction or judgment in effect as of the effective date of this bill suspending or otherwise affecting enrollment is unenforceable. The bill would specify that the above provisions apply retroactively to any decision related to enrollment or changes in enrollment made before the effective date of this bill. This bill would appropriate $50,000 from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California for purposes of this act for the 2021-22 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 14).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
From inactive file.
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Skinner.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (September 7).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2302.)
Senate rules suspended.
(Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2303.)
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 495.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 432.)
Ordered to second reading.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended.
Read first time.
From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
Introduced. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB168 | HTML |
| 01/08/21 - Introduced | |
| 02/18/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/05/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 02/16/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 03/11/22 - Amended Senate |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 02/24/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/06/21- Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review | |
| 09/08/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 03/11/22- Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review | |
| 03/14/22- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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