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AB 1732

California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: affordable housing projects: public university or public college housing projects.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct, affordablehousingprojects, exemption, publicuniversityorpubliccollegehousingprojects
Introduced / first action
2026-02-05 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development projects: public higher education land use plan.
  • California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: housing development project: public higher education land use plan.

Source-supplied abstracts

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, until January 1, 2033, exempts from its requirements certain actions for affordable housing projects that meet specified requirements, including confirmation by a public agency that, among other things, the project site satisfies specified requirements and a vacant project site does not contain tribal cultural resources that could be affected by the development that were found pursuant to a consultation and the effects of which cannot be mitigated, as provided. This bill would extend the operation of the above-described exemption to January 1, 2037, and would expand the exemption to also include a public university or public college housing project, as defined, that meets specified requirements. Because the bill would extend the operation of the exemption and would increase duties on a lead agency related to the expansion of 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.

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Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  2. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).

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  3. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

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

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  5. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13).

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  8. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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

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  10. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

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  13. Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HOUSING.

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

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  15. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)

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  16. Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5167.)

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  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  18. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 13).

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  20. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  21. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  22. Read second time and amended.

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  23. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22).

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  24. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

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  25. Read second time and amended.

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  26. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 13).

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  27. Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D.

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  28. From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.

  29. Read first time. To print.

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