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CA SB 252

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California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: undergrounding powerlines.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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 exempt from the provisions of CEQA a project to underground powerlines. Because a lead agency would be required to determine if a project qualifies for this exemption, 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
2025-02-03
Status date
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Latest action
2026-02-02 — Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Valladaresauthor

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-03

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-04

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6.

  3. 2025-02-14

    Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and E., U & C.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-07

    Set for hearing March 19.

  5. 2025-03-11

    March 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  6. 2025-03-12

    Set for hearing April 2.

  7. 2025-03-25

    April 2 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.

  8. 2026-02-02

    Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

    failure

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB252

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