Bill Text: CA SB359 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles: retirement and replacement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 415, Statutes of 2013. [SB359 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 359	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 21092.2 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 359, as introduced, Corbett. California Environmental Quality
Act: environmental impact reports.
   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 (EIR) 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 requires
notices regarding a lead agency determination to require an EIR or
other actions pursuant to that act be mailed to every person who
files a written request and provides that the failure of a person to
receive a requested notice shall not invalidate the action if there
has been substantial compliance with these notice provisions.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in these
CEQA notice provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21092.2 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21092.2.  (a) The notices required pursuant to Sections 21080.4,
21083.9, 21092, 21108, 21152, and 21161 shall be mailed to every
person who has filed a written request for notices with either the
clerk of the governing body or, if there is no governing body, the
director of the agency. If the agency offers to provide the notices
by email, upon filing a written request for notices, a person may
request that the notices be provided to him or her by email. The
request may also be filed with any other person designated by the
governing body or director to receive these requests. The agency may
require requests for notices to be annually renewed. The public
agency may charge a fee, except to other public agencies, that is
reasonably related to the costs of providing this service.
   (b)  Subdivision   If there has been
substantial compliance with the requirements of this section,
subdivision  (a) shall not be construed in any manner that
results in the invalidation of an action because of the failure of a
person to receive a requested notice  , if there has been
substantial compliance with the requirements of this section
 .
   (c) The notices required pursuant to Sections 21080.4 and 21161
shall be provided by the State Clearinghouse to any legislator in
whose district the project has an environmental impact, if the
legislator requests the notice and the State Clearinghouse has
received it.
                      
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