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 04/16/26 - Amended Senate
 03/25/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1375 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: urban intermodal rail station project.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

SB1375:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 25, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1375

Introduced by Senator Cortese

February 20, 2026

 An act to add Section 21080.76 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1375, as amended, Cortese.
 California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: urban intermodal rail station project.

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 from CEQA a public project for the improvement, institution, or increase of passenger rail service,
 including the maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities that will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains or specified rolling stock or locomotives, as provided. 

This bill would exempt from CEQA CEQA, except as specified, a public urban, intermodal rail station project within a long-urbanized area within the statewide passenger rail network, at which high-capacity light, commuter, and intercity rail services converge that meets specified conditions, including, among other requirements, a requirement for compliance with various environmental laws and for the adoption of a plan for how any displacement from the project will be fully addressed, as provided.
 The bill would require a lead agency, if it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA pursuant to this exemption, and it determines to carry out the project, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the county clerk of the county in which the project is located, as provided. The bill would permit exemption only for projects for which a notice of exemption is filed before January 1, 2032. Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of this exemption, 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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Urban, intermodal rail stations are critical hubs within the statewide rail network.

(b) Due to growth in transit-oriented communities and new and increased transit and rail services, existing stations require modernization to meet capacity needs and to offer a high-quality, seamless passenger experience.

(c) The modernization of these stations promotes a mode shift from private automobile travel to public transportation and supports dense, walkable,
 transit-oriented development in the surrounding station district that reduces vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas emissions, with modernization projects largely occurring on previously disturbed urban lands.

SEC. 2.

 Section 21080.76 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

21080.76.

 This (a) Except as pr