Adam Borchard, Stephen Guichard, Caroline Soto
AB 291 would streamline the filing of notices of determination under the California Environmental Quality Act for multi-county water projects and improve public access to these notices. Currently, agencies approving multi-county water projects face a myriad of different submission requirements from each county, posing substantial and unnecessary logistical burdens. AB 291 will simplify local agencies’ filing of notices of determination and improve public access by making these notices available with the county clerk in the agency’s home county and statewide on the state’s CEQAnet website for the first time.
Bill Author: Assembly Member Jose Medina
Bill Sponsor: Association of California Water Agencies (co-sponsor), McGeorge Law School Legislative and Public Policy Clinic (co-sponsor)
Status: AB 291 passed out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Assembly Appropriations Committee. It was next set to be heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, was not heard, and is a two-year bill.
Hearings:
Assembly Appropriations Committee, April 30, 2015
California Department of Finance Analysis
Assembly Natural Resources Committee, April 13, 2015
Vote Record:
Date |
Result |
Location |
Ayes |
Noes |
NVR |
Motion |
04/30/15 |
(PASS) |
Assembly Floor |
77 |
0 |
3 |
AB 291 MEDINA Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session |
Ayes: Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Baker, Beth Gaines, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Chang, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Cristina Garcia, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eduardo Garcia, Eggman, Frazier, Gallagher, Gatto, Gipson, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mark Stone, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Obernolte, Olsen, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Roger Hernández, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Thurmond, Ting, Travis Allen, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood |
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No Votes Recorded: Campos, Chávez, Gomez |
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04/22/15 |
(PASS) |
Asm Appropriations |
17 |
0 |
0 |
Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. |
Ayes: Bigelow, Bloom, Bonta, Calderon, Chang, Daly, Eduardo Garcia, Eggman, Gallagher, Gomez, Holden, Jones, Quirk, Rendon, Wagner, Weber, Wood |
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04/13/15 |
(PASS) |
Asm Natural Resources |
9 |
0 |
0 |
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] |
Ayes: Cristina Garcia, Dahle, Hadley, Harper, Mark Stone, McCarty, Rendon, Williams, Wood |
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Media:
ACWA-Sponsored CEQA Bill AB 291 Clears Assembly, Headed to Senate: http://www.acwa.com/news/water-news/acwa-sponsored-ceqa-bill-ab-291-clears-assembly-headed-senate