Bill Commons

CA AB 839

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California Environmental Quality Act: expedited judicial review: sustainable aviation fuel projects.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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Did CA AB 839 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 839 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-08-13): In committee: Held under submission.

What is CA AB 839 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 (EIR) 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 authorizes the Governor to certify projects meeting certain requirements as infrastructure projects and provide those certified projects with certain streamlining benefits, including requiring the lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings concurrently with the environmental review process and requiring the resolution of an action or proceeding challenging the certification of an EIR for certified projects or the granting of any project approvals, to the extent feasible, within 270 days of the filing of the record of proceedings with the court, as specified. Existing law requires the lead agency, within 10 days of the certification of an infrastructure project, to provide a public notice of the certification, as provided. If a lead agency fails to approve a project certified as an infrastructure project before January 1, 2033, existing law specifies that the certification is no longer valid. This bill would authorize the Governor to certify up to 3 sustainable aviation fuel projects, as defined, meeting certain requirements, as infrastructure projects, thereby providing the above streamlining benefits to those projects. By expanding the duties of a lead agency as they relate to infrastructure projects and to sustainable aviation fuel projects, 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.

Who sponsors CA AB 839?

Blanca Rubio is the primary sponsor of CA AB 839, joined by 1 cosponsor.

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 (EIR) 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 authorizes the Governor to certify projects meeting certain requirements as infrastructure projects and provide those certified projects with certain streamlining benefits, including requiring the lead agency to prepare the record of proceedings concurrently with the environmental review process and requiring the resolution of an action or proceeding challenging the certification of an EIR for certified projects or the granting of any project approvals, to the extent feasible, within 270 days of the filing of the record of proceedings with the court, as specified. Existing law requires the lead agency, within 10 days of the certification of an infrastructure project, to provide a public notice of the certification, as provided. If a lead agency fails to approve a project certified as an infrastructure project before January 1, 2033, existing law specifies that the certification is no longer valid. This bill would authorize the Governor to certify up to 3 sustainable aviation fuel projects, as defined, meeting certain requirements, as infrastructure projects, thereby providing the above streamlining benefits to those projects. By expanding the duties of a lead agency as they relate to infrastructure projects and to sustainable aviation fuel projects, 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.

Introduced
2025-03-24
Latest action
2026-08-13 — In committee: Held under submission.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Blanca Rubioauthor
  • Pachecocoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-08-13

    In committee: Held under submission.

  2. 2026-08-03

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  3. 2026-07-01

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  4. 2026-06-17

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  5. 2026-05-28

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  6. 2026-05-26

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  7. 2025-07-02

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

  8. 2025-06-24

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  9. 2025-06-04

    Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD.

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  10. 2025-05-23

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

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  11. 2025-05-23

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1653.)

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  12. 2025-05-15

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. 2025-05-14

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

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  14. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  15. 2025-04-22

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  16. 2025-04-21

    Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  17. 2025-04-11

    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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  18. 2025-03-25

    Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  19. 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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  20. 2025-03-24

    Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD.

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  21. 2025-02-20

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

  22. 2025-02-19

    Read first time. To print.

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Versions

  • 02/19/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-19Compare
  • 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
  • 04/11/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-11Compare
  • 06/24/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-24Compare
  • 05/26/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-05-26Compare
  • AB839Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-04-21 · pass · 14-0

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

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

    2025-04-29 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: 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 839 Blanca Rubio Assembly Third Reading

    2025-05-23 · pass · 71-0

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

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

    2026-06-17 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Allen: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Menjivar: no
    • Gonzalez: other

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

    2026-06-30 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Durazo: yes

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