Bill Text: CA SB1512 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-22 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1512 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1512-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1512	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 21185 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1512, as introduced, Cannella. Environmental quality:
California Environmental Quality Act: litigation.
   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.
   CEQA establishes a streamlined judicial review process for
projects certified by the Governor as a leadership project.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21185 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21185.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law,  any 
 an  action or proceeding alleging that a public agency or
has approved or is undertaking a leadership project certified by the
Governor in violation of this division shall be conducted in
accordance with the following streamlining benefits:
   (1) The action or proceeding shall be filed in the Court of Appeal
with geographic jurisdiction over the project.
   (2)  Any   A    party bringing
such a claim shall also file concurrently any other claims alleging
that a public agency has granted land use approvals for the
leadership project in violation of the law. The Court of Appeal shall
have original jurisdiction over all those claims.
   (3) The Court of Appeal shall issue its decision in the case
within 175 days of the filing of the petition.
   (4) The court may appoint a master to assist the court in managing
and processing the case.
   (5) The court may grant extensions of time only for good cause
shown and in order to promote the interests of justice.
   (b) On or before July 1, 2012, the Judicial Council shall adopt
Rules of Court to implement this chapter.