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CA AB 66

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California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: egress route projects: fire safety.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 66 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 66 is in committee as of 2025-07-16 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-07-16): In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

What is CA AB 66 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. This bill would, until January 1, 2032, exempt from CEQA egress route projects undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision without a secondary egress route if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are met. The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to public comments before determining that a project is exempt. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and with the clerk of the county in which the project will be located.

Who sponsors CA AB 66?

Tangipa is the primary sponsor of CA AB 66.

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. This bill would, until January 1, 2032, exempt from CEQA egress route projects undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision without a secondary egress route if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are met. The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to public comments before determining that a project is exempt. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and with the clerk of the county in which the project will be located.

Introduced
2024-12-03
Latest action
2025-07-16 — In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Tangipaauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-12-03

    Introduced. To print.

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  2. 2024-12-04

    From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.

  3. 2025-01-06

    Read first time.

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  4. 2025-02-24

    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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  5. 2025-02-24

    Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  6. 2025-02-25

    Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  7. 2025-03-25

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  8. 2025-04-09

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  9. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  10. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. 2025-06-05

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 1. Page 2115.)

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  12. 2025-06-09

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

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  13. 2025-06-18

    Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W.

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  14. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2).

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  15. 2025-07-03

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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  16. 2025-07-16

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Versions

  • 12/03/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-03Compare
  • 02/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-02-24Compare
  • 07/03/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-03Compare
  • AB66Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-03-24 · pass · 10-0

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

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0

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

  • AB 66 Tangipa Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-06 · pass · 58-1

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Ramos: no
    • Gallagher: other
    • Schultz: other
    • Aguiar-Curry: other
    • Ortega: other
    • Kalra: other
    • Fong: other
    • Addis: other
    • Harabedian: other
    • Hart: other
    • Muratsuchi: other
    • Ahrens: other
    • Lee: other
    • Bennett: other
    • Caloza: other
    • Bonta: other
    • Pellerin: other
    • Valencia: other
    • Boerner: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Zbur: other

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water]

    2025-07-02 · pass · 7-0

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

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB66

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