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California 20252026

SB 344

California Environmental Quality Act: City of San Diego: mixed-use development project.

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

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct, CityofSanDiego, mixed-usedevelopmentproject
Introduced / first action
2025-02-12 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • Disposition of human remains: scattering at sea.
  • Health care service plans: financial risk requirement.

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. This bill would provide that a specified City of San Diego environmental impact report for a mixed-use development project, known as the Midway Rising project, is deemed sufficient, adequate, and complete for full compliance with CEQA and that any approval of the project may rely conclusively on that report for compliance with CEQA. The bill would require that all mitigation measures adopted by the City of San Diego as the lead agency be conditions of approval of the project. The bill would require the lead agency to monitor and enforce those conditions for the life of each applicable obligation. To the extent this requirement would impose new duties on a local agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the project applicant to submit to the lead agency an annual status report on the implementation of those conditions. The bill would make its provisions operative upon the effective date of the bill or on the date the City Council of the City of San Diego certifies the report, whichever occurs later. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of San Diego. 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

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

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  2. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  3. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  4. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.

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  5. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  6. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 27).

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  7. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  8. Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.

  9. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

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  10. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. Read third time and amended.

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  12. Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended.

  13. Ordered to third reading.

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  14. From inactive file.

  15. Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Ward.

  16. Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Garcia.

  17. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  18. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 16).

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  19. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  20. Referred to Com. on B. & P.

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  21. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  22. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  23. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  24. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

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  25. Set for hearing May 12.

  26. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 916.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  27. Set for hearing April 28.

  28. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

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  29. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  30. Referred to Com. on RLS.

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  31. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.

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

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