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AB-1997 • 2026

Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.

Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.

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Sponsor
Lee
Last action
Official status
Senate - Third Reading
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.

AB 1997, as amended, Lee.

What This Bill Does

  • AB 1997, as amended, Lee.
  • Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.
  • 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.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. California Legislative Information

    Senate - Third Reading

Official Summary Text

Land use: housing development approvals: timelines and processes.