Scott Wiener
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 11
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. Existing law, until January 1, 2030, exempts from CEQA a university housing development project carried out by a public university on real property owned by the public university if the project meets certain requirements, including that each building within the project is certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum or better by the United States Green Building Council. Existing law requires the lead agency, if the university housing development project is exempt from CEQA under the above provision, to file the LEED certificate for buildings within the project and a notice determining that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. Existing law requires a university housing development project carried out by the University of California, in order to be exempt from CEQA under this law, to be consistent with the most recent long-range development plan EIR certified on or after January 1, 2018, as provided. This bill would extend the application of the university housing development project exemption until January 1, 2032. The bill would instead require a university housing development project carried out by the University of California, in order to be exempt from CEQA under the above-described exemption to be located on a campus site identified for housing in the most recent long-range development plan EIR or an EIR prepared for any subsequent amendment to that plan relating to housing, as specified. The bill would repeal the requirement to file the LEED certificate with the county clerk of the county in which the project is located. Existing law requires a public university or a relevant public agency with authority to issue a certificate of occupancy for a building within an exempt university housing development project to not issue the certificate of occupancy for the building unless the lead agency receives certification of LEED Platinum or better from the United States Green Building Council for the building and the lead agency determines that the construction impacts of the project have been fully mitigated. This bill would instead require a public university to obtain LEED Platinum certification for each building within a university housing development project no later than 18 months from the issuance of the building's certificate of occupancy or an equivalent certification, or its initial usage, and would authorize a public university to obtain 2 extensions for this LEED certification compliance requirement in 6-month increments, as provided. The bill would prohibit a public university that has exempted an approved university housing development project pursuant to the above-described exemption from applying that exemption to a subsequent university housing development project until the public university has obtained LEED Platinum certification for each building within the prior exempted university housing development project, except as specified. The bill would also make other related changes.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 284, Statutes of 2024.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5683.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 6528.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 15).
August 7 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.) (July 1).
June 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 3035.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3011.) (January 18).
Set for hearing January 18.
January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing January 16.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2970.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing January 10.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Senate rules suspended.
April 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 11.
March 28 hearing postponed by committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Set for hearing March 28.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB312 | HTML |
| 02/06/23 - Introduced | |
| 03/14/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/13/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 01/03/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 01/11/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/24/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/03/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/03/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/03/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/19/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/07/23- Senate Transportation | |
| 01/08/24- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 01/12/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 01/23/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/28/24- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 08/05/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/19/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/27/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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