California Environmental Quality Act: Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund: contributions.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Ávila Farías
Last action: 2026-04-20
Official status: Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify exact amounts or conditions for contributions beyond validation requirements.

California Environmental Quality Act: Transit-Oriented Development Fund Contributions

AB-2552 allows lead agencies to require project applicants to contribute to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if certain conditions are met, and such contributions count as full mitigation for significant transportation impacts under CEQA.

What This Bill Does

Allows lead agencies to require project applicants to contribute to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if specific cost conditions are met and reductions in vehicle miles traveled have been validated by the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.

Who It Names or Affects

Lead agencies responsible for approving projects under CEQA
Project applicants who may be required to contribute to the fund

Terms To Know

Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund: A fund used to support affordable housing and related infrastructure projects that help reduce transportation impacts.
Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT): The total distance traveled by vehicles, which is a measure of transportation impact.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify the exact amount or conditions for contributions to the fund beyond validation requirements.
Requires validation from specific state agencies before requiring project applicants to contribute.
Depends on future guidance issued every three years starting July 1, 2026.

Bill History

2026-04-20 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
2026-04-16 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2026-04-15 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 13).
2026-03-16 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and H. & C.D.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2552, as amended, Ávila Farías.
California Environmental Quality Act:
transportation impact mitigation.
Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund: contributions.
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.
If a lead agency determines that a project will have a significant transportation impact, existing law authorizes the
lead agency to mitigate the transportation impact to a less than significant level by helping to fund or otherwise facilitating housing or related infrastructure projects, including by contributing an amount, to be determined pursuant to guidance issued by the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund for purposes of the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program. Existing law makes those moneys available to the
department,
Department of Housing and Community Development,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of awarding funding for affordable housing or related infrastructure projects under the program in accordance with specified priorities. On or before July 1, 2026, and at least once every 3 years thereafter, existing law requires the
office, in consultation with other state agencies, to issue guidance related to the implementation of these provisions, as provided.
Existing law makes related findings and declarations.
This bill would
provide that a contribution to the fund is full and complete mitigation for that portion of the project’s significant transportation impact and a legally sufficient mitigation measure under CEQA. The bill would make additional related findings and declarations.
authorize a lead agency for a land use project to require an applicant to contribute to the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund if certain cost conditions are met and the department and the office have validated the
reductions in vehicle miles traveled that are attributable to the project, as specified.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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