Anna Caballero
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 14
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. Existing law requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for certification and adoption proposed revisions to guidelines establishing criteria, for purposes of CEQA, for determining the significance of transportation impacts of projects within transit priority areas to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of multimodal transportation networks, and a diversity of land uses. Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state. This bill would require the department, in consultation with local governments and other interested parties, as specified, by January 1, 2028, and subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, to conduct and post on its internet website a study on how vehicle miles traveled is used as a metric for measuring transportation impacts of housing projects pursuant to CEQA. The bill would require the study to include, among other things, an analysis of the differences in the availability and feasibility of mitigation measures to housing projects for vehicle miles traveled in rural, suburban, urban, and low vehicle miles traveled areas. The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2029.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 5505.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6522.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (August 15).
July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
June 26 hearing postponed by committee.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 3052.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3012.) (January 18).
Set for hearing January 18.
January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing January 16.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 2970.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Set for hearing January 10.
April 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 19.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB768 | HTML |
| 02/17/23 - Introduced | |
| 03/22/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 01/11/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/29/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/29/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/27/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/17/23- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 01/08/24- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 01/12/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 01/24/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/07/24- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 06/28/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/21/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/23/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/27/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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