Bill Text: CA SB739 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 739 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Environmental quality.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB739 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB739-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 739	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 21062 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 739, as introduced, Calderon. Environmental quality.
   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 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.
   Existing law defines "local agency" for the purposes of CEQA.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
definition.
   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 21062 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21062.  "Local agency" means  any   a 
public agency other than a state agency, board, or commission. For
purposes of this division a redevelopment agency and a local agency
formation commission are local agencies, and neither is a state
agency, board, or commission.