Bill Text: CA AB1307 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1307

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Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2023. [AB1307 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1307-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly May 18, 2023

Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1307

Introduced by Assembly Members ~~Wicks~~ Wicks, Hoover, and Luz Rivas
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)

February 16, 2023

An act to add Section 21085 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental ~~quality.~~ quality, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1307, as amended, Wicks. California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.

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 specify that noise generated by ~~the unamplified voices of residents~~ occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: ~~MAJORITY~~2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 21085 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

21085.

For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by ~~the unamplified voices of residents~~ occupants is not a significant effect on the ~~environment for residential projects.~~ environment.

SEC. 2.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
Currently in California there is a substantial housing crisis. To ensure housing projects are not subject to further uncertainty, delay, or risk of lawsuit, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.