John Laird
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 17
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 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 authorizes a lead agency for a later project, if a prior EIR has been prepared and certified for a program, plan, policy, or ordinance, commonly known as a "program EIR," to examine significant effects of the later project upon the environment by using a tiered EIR and provides that the tiered EIR is not required to examine effects that meet certain requirements. Existing law establishes a process for the certification of facilities related to clean energy infrastructure by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) . This bill would authorize the Energy Commission to prepare a program EIR to analyze the development of a class or classes of facility related to clean energy infrastructure, as provided. The bill would authorize a public agency considering the approval of a specific facility that is within a class or classes of facility described in the program EIR prepared under these provisions to tier from that program EIR.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 6657.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 18).
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 4048.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3531.) (April 9).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 9.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1272 | HTML |
| 02/15/24 - Introduced | |
| 04/01/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/24/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/27/24 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/08/24- Senate Judiciary | |
| 04/11/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/15/24- Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection | |
| 06/25/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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