Eduardo Garcia
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 36
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 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. The CEQA exempts certain projects from its requirements, including actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency. Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or extensions of those facilities without first having to obtain from the Public Utilities Commission a certificate that the present or future convenience and necessity require or will require the construction. Existing law specifies that the certificate is not required for the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of existing electrical transmission facilities. This bill would, for electrical infrastructure projects, as defined, designate the commission as the lead agency for purposes of the CEQA, would require the commission to prescribe procedures for the preparation of the appropriate environmental review document for those projects, and would specify the manner in which the environmental review for those projects is to be conducted. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2035.
In committee: Held under submission.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 3).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22).
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 16).
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4775.)
(Pending re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES.)
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 3).
Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and W., P., & W.
Introduced measure version corrected.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB3238 | HTML |
| 02/16/24 - Introduced | |
| 04/08/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/17/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/25/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/16/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/12/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/08/24 - Amended Senate |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/02/24- Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy | |
| 04/14/24- Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife | |
| 04/20/24- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 05/06/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/20/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/24/24- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 07/01/24- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 07/02/24- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 08/09/24- Senate Appropriations |
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