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CA SB 508

in committee

California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impact mitigation.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 508 pass?

Not yet. CA SB 508 is in committee as of 2025-09-09 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-09-09): From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

What is CA SB 508 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. If a lead agency determines that a project will have a significant transportation impact, existing law authorizes the lead agency to mitigate the transportation impact to a less than significant level by helping to fund or otherwise facilitating housing or related infrastructure projects, including by contributing an amount, to be determined pursuant to guidance issued by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for purposes of the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program. Existing law authorizes the deposit of those contributions into the fund beginning on or before July 1, 2026, as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, and makes those moneys available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of awarding funding for affordable housing or related infrastructure projects under the program in accordance with specified priorities. On or before July 1, 2026, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, existing law requires the office, in consultation with other state agencies, to issue guidance related to the implementation of these provisions, as provided. Existing law makes related findings and declarations. This bill would require a contribution to the fund to be deemed full and complete mitigation for that portion of the project's significant transportation impact mitigated by the contribution to the fund and a legally sufficient mitigation measure under CEQA. The bill would authorize the deposit of those contributions into the fund beginning on the date of the issuance of the initial guidance by the office. The bill would make additional related findings and declarations.

Who sponsors CA SB 508?

Valladares is the primary sponsor of CA SB 508, joined by 6 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. If a lead agency determines that a project will have a significant transportation impact, existing law authorizes the lead agency to mitigate the transportation impact to a less than significant level by helping to fund or otherwise facilitating housing or related infrastructure projects, including by contributing an amount, to be determined pursuant to guidance issued by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for purposes of the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program. Existing law authorizes the deposit of those contributions into the fund beginning on or before July 1, 2026, as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, and makes those moneys available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of awarding funding for affordable housing or related infrastructure projects under the program in accordance with specified priorities. On or before July 1, 2026, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, existing law requires the office, in consultation with other state agencies, to issue guidance related to the implementation of these provisions, as provided. Existing law makes related findings and declarations. This bill would require a contribution to the fund to be deemed full and complete mitigation for that portion of the project's significant transportation impact mitigated by the contribution to the fund and a legally sufficient mitigation measure under CEQA. The bill would authorize the deposit of those contributions into the fund beginning on the date of the issuance of the initial guidance by the office. The bill would make additional related findings and declarations.

Introduced
2025-02-19
Latest action
2025-09-09 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Valladaresauthor
  • Alvarezprincipal coauthor
  • Ávila Faríasprincipal coauthor
  • Floraprincipal coauthor
  • Graysoncoauthor
  • Hadwickcoauthor
  • Hoovercoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-19

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

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  2. 2025-02-20

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

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  4. 2025-03-18

    Set for hearing April 7.

  5. 2025-04-03

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

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  6. 2025-04-07

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 680.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  7. 2025-04-09

    Set for hearing April 21.

  8. 2025-04-21

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

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  9. 2025-04-22

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-05-27

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1252.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  11. 2025-05-28

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  12. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Com. on B. & P.

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  13. 2025-07-01

    July 1 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  14. 2025-09-09

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

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Versions

  • 02/19/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-19Compare
  • 04/03/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-03Compare
  • 09/09/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-09Compare
  • SB508Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-04-07 · pass · 10-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Choi: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Strickland: other

  • 3rd Reading SB508 Valladares et al.

    2025-05-27 · pass · 39-0

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

Related bills

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB508

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