Bill Text: CA AB2991 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011: leadership project certification.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-02 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2991 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2991-Introduced.html
prior to before January 1, 2020. 2025. prior to before January 1, 2021, 2026, a lead agency fails to approve a project certified by the Governor pursuant to this chapter, then the certification expires and is no longer valid. 2021, 2026, and as of that date is repealed unless a later enacted statute extends or repeals that date.
Bill Title: Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011: leadership project certification.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-02 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2991 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2991-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2991
| Introduced by Assembly Members Santiago and Ting |
February 21, 2020 |
An act to amend Sections 21181, 21189.1, and 21189.3 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2991, as introduced, Santiago.
Environmental quality: Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.
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.
The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011 authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2020, to certify projects
that meet certain requirements for streamlining benefits provided by that act related to compliance with CEQA and streamlining of judicial review of action taken by a public agency. The act provides that if a lead agency fails to approve a project certified by the Governor before January 1, 2021, the certification expires and is no longer valid. The act requires a lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings for the certified project concurrent with the preparation of the environmental documents. The act is repealed by its own terms on January 1, 2021.
This bill would extend the authority of the Governor to certify a project to January 1, 2025. The bill would provide that the certification expires and is no longer valid if the lead agency fails to approve a certified project before January 1, 2026. The bill would instead repeal the act on January 1, 2026. Because the bill would extend the obligation of the lead agency to prepare concurrently the record of
proceedings, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
