Bill Text: CA SB756 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 756 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB756 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB756-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 756	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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:

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