20250SB__029995AMD INTRODUCED 2025-02-10 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-05-07 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-01-05 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-01-14 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-06-29 2025 SB AMD Introduced by Senator Cabaldon (Coauthor: Senator Pérez) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Cabaldon COAUTHOR SENATE Pérez

An act to add

Section 21080.68 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. environmental quality California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: day care center: zoning. 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. Existing law exempts specified projects from CEQA, including a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined, that is not located in a residential area.

This bill would exempt from CEQA a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined, that is located on a parcel of land zoned exclusively for residential use, except as provided. By imposing additional duties on a lead agency to determine the applicability of these exemptions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. MAJORITY NO YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 21080.68 is added to the Public Resources Code , to read: 21080.68. (

a) This division does not apply to A project"?> a project that consists exclusively of a day care center, as defined in

Section 1596.76 of the Health and Safety Code, that is located on a parcel of land zoned exclusively for residential use. (2)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>A project that consists exclusively of a family daycare home, as defined in

Section 1596.78 of the Health and Safety Code, that is located on a parcel of land zoned exclusively for residential use.</xhtml:p>"?> (

b) This

section does not apply to a project located within 3,200 feet of a facility that actively extracts or refines oil or natural gas. (

c) This

section does not apply to a project located on natural and protected lands, as defined pursuant to

Section 21067.5.

SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to

Section of

Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of

Section of the Government Code.