BILL NUMBER: AB 2026	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hadley

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to amend Section 21001.1 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2026, as introduced, Hadley. California Environmental Quality
Act.
   The California Environmental Quality Act 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. Existing law declares the
policy of the state that a project to be carried out by a public
agency be subject to the same level of review and consideration under
the act as that required of private projects required to be approved
by public agencies.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21001.1 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21001.1.  The Legislature further finds and declares that it is
the policy of the state that projects to be carried out by public
agencies be subject to the same level of review and consideration
under this division as that  required  of private projects
required to be approved by public agencies.