Amended IN Assembly May 18, 2023 Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1307Introduced by Assembly Members Wicks Wicks, Hoover, and Luz Rivas(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)February 16, 2023An act to add Section 21085 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. quality, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1307, as amended, Wicks. California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.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 specify that noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 21085 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:Currently in California there is a substantial housing crisis. To ensure housing projects are not subject to further uncertainty, delay, or risk of lawsuit, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
Amended IN Assembly May 18, 2023 Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1307Introduced by Assembly Members Wicks Wicks, Hoover, and Luz Rivas(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)February 16, 2023An act to add Section 21085 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. quality, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1307, as amended, Wicks. California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.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 specify that noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly May 18, 2023 Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2023
Amended IN Assembly May 18, 2023
Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2023
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1307
Introduced by Assembly Members Wicks Wicks, Hoover, and Luz Rivas(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)February 16, 2023
Introduced by Assembly Members Wicks Wicks, Hoover, and Luz Rivas(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)
February 16, 2023
An act to add Section 21085 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. quality, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1307, as amended, Wicks. California Environmental Quality Act: noise impact: residential projects.
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 specify that noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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 specify that noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects for purposes of CEQA.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 21085 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:Currently in California there is a substantial housing crisis. To ensure housing projects are not subject to further uncertainty, delay, or risk of lawsuit, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 21085 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.
SECTION 1. Section 21085 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.
21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.
21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.
21085. For purposes of this division, for residential projects, noise generated by the unamplified voices of residents occupants is not a significant effect on the environment for residential projects. environment.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:Currently in California there is a substantial housing crisis. To ensure housing projects are not subject to further uncertainty, delay, or risk of lawsuit, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:Currently in California there is a substantial housing crisis. To ensure housing projects are not subject to further uncertainty, delay, or risk of lawsuit, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
### SEC. 2.
Currently in California there is a substantial housing crisis. To ensure housing projects are not subject to further uncertainty, delay, or risk of lawsuit, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.