Bill Text: CA SB198 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: historical resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB198 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB198-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill | No. 198 |
Introduced by Senator Bates |
January 31, 2019 |
An act to amend Section 21084.1 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 198, as introduced, Bates.
California Environmental Quality Act: historical resources.
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 provides that a project may have a significant effect on the environment if the project may cause a substantial adverse change in the
significance of a historical resource.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the provision relating to historical resources.