Senate BillNo. 756


Introduced by Senator Stone

February 27, 2015


An act relating to environmental quality.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 756, as introduced, Stone. California Environmental Quality Act.

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.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to amend CEQA.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
2legislation to amend the California Environmental Quality Act
P2    1(Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public
2Resources Code).



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