Bill Dodd
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 3
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. 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. CEQA requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare and develop, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt, guidelines for the implementation of CEQA. CEQA requires the guidelines to include a list of classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment and are exempt from the requirements of CEQA, commonly known as categorical exemptions. This bill, on or before January 1, 2026, would require the office to evaluate, and the secretary to consider, the inclusion of roadside projects no more than 5 road miles from a municipality or census-designated place that are undertaken solely for the purpose of wildfire risk reduction in the classes of projects subject to a categorical exemption. The bill would require the office to consider appropriate eligibility criteria for these projects, as specified.
August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17).
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4180.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3973.) (May 16).
Set for hearing May 16.
May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 13.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3728.) (April 23).
Set for hearing April 23.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3467.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Set for hearing April 3.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1159 | HTML |
| 02/14/24 - Introduced | |
| 03/20/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/24/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/24/24 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/01/24- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 04/19/24- Senate Natural Resources and Water | |
| 05/10/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/17/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/14/24- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 06/28/24- Assembly Appropriations |
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