2025 – Senate Bill 71 (Weiner, Scott), California Environmental Quality Act: Exemptions: Transit Projects (Chaptered)
Bill Number
SB 71
Legislative Session
2025-2026
Bill Information
Category
CEQA, Public Transit, Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Housing
Status
Chaptered
Author
Wiener.Scott
Contact
Office of Legislative Affairs
Email
Permanently exempts active transportation plans, pedestrian plans, and bicycle transportation plans for the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, and signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations from CEQA. This bill expands the project types applicable for the CEQA exemption of certain transportation-related projects and extends the exemption from January 1, 2030, to January 1, 2040. The bill extends and expands other CEQA exemptions for public projects related to transit and requires certain CEQA-exempt projects that exceed a specified dollar amount to meet certain criteria.