AB 145: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: housing development projects: energy systems and electronics: labor standards.

This bill would subject rezonings for bed and breakfast inns, hotels, and other transient lodging to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review, even if they implement a schedule of actions contained in an approved housing element. The bill would also exempt housing development projects with a site size exceeding 4 acres from the limited application of CEQA if they are a builder's remedy project. Additionally, the bill would repeal the CEQA exemption for projects consisting exclusively of a facility for advanced manufacturing and instead exempt projects that meet certain high road employment standards. The bill would also require the development of guidelines for evaluating high road employment standards and exempt the development of these guidelines from the Administrative Procedure Act. Finally, the bill would appropriate $10,000 from the general fund to implement the act.