California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2059: California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impacts: vehicle miles traveled: mitigation.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 21081.4 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. environmental quality California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impacts: vehicle miles traveled: mitigation. 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…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to add Section 21081.4 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. environmental quality California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impacts: vehicle miles traveled: mitigation. 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. CEQA requires the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for certification and adoption proposed revisions to the CEQA implementation guidelines to establish criteria for determining the significance of transportation impacts of projects within transit priority areas, and requires the criteria to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of multimodal transportation networks, and a diversity of land uses. …