California bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB 66
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: egress route projects: fire safety.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became law
Sponsors
- Tangipa (Republican)
Summary
Official abstract published by the California legislature· summary
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, until January 1, 2032, exempt from CEQA egress route projects undertaken by a public agency to improve emergency access to and evacuation from a subdivision without a secondary egress route if the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has recommended the creation of a secondary access to the subdivision and certain conditions are met. The bill would require the lead agency to hold a noticed public meeting to hear and respond to public comments before determining that a project is exempt. The bill would require the lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and with the clerk of the county in which the project will be located.
Text versions
- 07/03/25 - Amended Senate· Jul 3, 2025
- 02/24/25 - Amended Assembly· Feb 24, 2025
- 12/03/24 - Introduced· Dec 3, 2024
- AB66
Roll-call votes
State vote data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 4:38 PM.
| Date | Vote | Result | Your legislators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2025 Senate | Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] | pass | Set your home in California to see |
| Jun 6, 2025 House | AB 66 Tangipa Assembly Third Reading | pass | Set your home in California to see |
| May 23, 2025 House | Do pass. | pass | Set your home in California to see |
| Mar 24, 2025 House | Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] | pass | Set your home in California to see |
Actions
- Jul 16, 2025 · Senate
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - Jul 3, 2025 · Senate
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. - Jul 2, 2025 · Senate
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). - Jun 18, 2025 · Senate
Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and N.R. & W. - Jun 9, 2025 · Senate
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. - Jun 5, 2025 · House
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 1. Page 2115.) - May 27, 2025 · House
Read second time. Ordered to third reading. - May 23, 2025 · House
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). - Apr 9, 2025 · House
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. - Mar 25, 2025 · House
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. - Feb 25, 2025 · House
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. - Feb 24, 2025 · House
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. - Feb 24, 2025 · House
Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. - Jan 6, 2025 · House
Read first time. - Dec 4, 2024 · House
From printer. May be heard in committee January 3. - Dec 3, 2024 · House
Introduced. To print.