CA AB 609

in committee

California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 609 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 609 is in committee as of 2025-05-20 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-05-20): In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

What is CA AB 609 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. This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a housing development project, as defined, that meets certain conditions relating to, for example, size, density, and location, including specific requirements for any housing on the project site located within 500 feet of a freeway. The bill would require a local government, as a condition of approval for the development, to require the development proponent to complete a specified environmental assessment regarding hazardous substance releases. If a recognized environmental condition is found, the bill would require the development proponent to complete a preliminary endangerment assessment and specified mitigation based on that assessment. Because a lead agency would be required to determine whether a housing development project qualifies for this exemption, the 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.

Who sponsors CA AB 609?

Wicks is the primary sponsor of CA AB 609, joined by 12 cosponsors.

Description

Introduced: 2025-03-24
Latest action: 2025-05-20 — In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Committees

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Action timeline

2025-02-13
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-14
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2025-03-24
Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-25
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
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2025-04-21
(Pending re-refer to Com. on H. & C. D.)
referral-committee
2025-04-21
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1163.)
2025-04-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21).
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2025-04-24
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-28
Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
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2025-05-01
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30).
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2025-05-05
Read second time and amended.
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2025-05-06
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2025-05-15
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-19
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 1603.)
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2025-05-20
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
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Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development]
2025-04-21 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (14)
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Flora: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pellerin: other
- Connolly: other
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-30 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Garcia: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Lee: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ta: yes
- Haney: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: other
Do pass.
2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hart: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Ta: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
AB 609 Wicks Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-19 · pass · 67-0
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
- Wilson: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Haney: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Krell: yes
- Gallagher: 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
- Valencia: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ta: yes
- Bains: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ellis: 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
- Chen: other
- Rogers: other
- Papan: other
- Dixon: other
- Hart: other
- Berman: other
- Addis: other
- Flora: other
- Connolly: other
- Pellerin: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Boerner: other

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB609

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