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CA AB 571

enacted

California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 571 pass?

Yes. CA AB 571 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 571 about?

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. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements and activities and approvals related to certain prison facilities. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA any activity or approval necessary for the completion of the Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange if specified conditions are met. To the extent that a local agency would be required to determine whether an activity or approval qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2030. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange. 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Who sponsors CA AB 571?

Quirk-Silva is the primary sponsor of CA AB 571, joined by 13 cosponsors.

Description

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. CEQA exempts from its requirements various projects, including, but not limited to, housing projects that meet certain requirements and activities and approvals related to certain prison facilities. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA any activity or approval necessary for the completion of the Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange if specified conditions are met. To the extent that a local agency would be required to determine whether an activity or approval qualifies for this exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2030. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Gypsum Canyon Veterans Cemetery in the County of Orange. 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Introduced
2025-04-09
Latest action
2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Quirk-Silvaauthor
  • Chencoauthor
  • Daviescoauthor
  • Dixoncoauthor
  • Pachecocoauthor
  • Petrie-Norriscoauthor
  • Michelle Rodriguezcoauthor
  • Sanchezcoauthor
  • Tacoauthor
  • Valenciacoauthor
  • Archuletacoauthor
  • Choicoauthor
  • Grovecoauthor
  • Umbergcoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-12

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-13

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.

  3. 2025-03-03

    Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and M. & V.A.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-04-09

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 7).

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  5. 2025-04-10

    Read second time and amended.

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  6. 2025-04-21

    Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.

    referral-committee

  7. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  8. 2025-04-30

    Coauthors revised.

  9. 2025-05-07

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7).

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  10. 2025-05-08

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. 2025-05-19

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1595.).

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  12. 2025-05-20

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  13. 2025-05-28

    Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and M. & V.A.

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  14. 2025-06-18

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18).

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  15. 2025-06-19

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.

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  16. 2025-07-15

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  17. 2025-08-19

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  18. 2025-08-20

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  19. 2025-09-02

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2393.).

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  20. 2025-09-02

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  21. 2025-09-03

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2858.).

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  22. 2025-09-09

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  23. 2025-10-01

    Approved by the Governor.

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  24. 2025-10-01

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/12/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-12Compare
  • 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-10Compare
  • 06/19/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-19Compare
  • 09/05/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-05Compare
  • 10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
  • AB571Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs]

    2025-04-07 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (14)
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Hoover: yes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-29 · pass · 8-0

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Valencia: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-07 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Dixon: yes

  • AB 571 Quirk-Silva Third Reading Urgency

    2025-05-19 · pass · 75-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Solache: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Papan: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Flora: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-18 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Gonzalez: other
    • Padilla: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-14 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Umberg: yes

  • 3rd Reading AB571 Quirk-Silva et al. By Archuleta Urgency Clause

    2025-09-02 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

  • AB 571 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-03 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Fong: yes

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