SB 131: Public Resources.

The bill aims to add a new round of funding to the homeless housing, assistance, and prevention program. The program will provide jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges. The bill also makes changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to exempt certain projects from environmental review, including rezoning to implement a housing element, new agricultural employee housing projects, and certain community water system projects. The bill limits the application of CEQA to the effects of a single condition that makes a project ineligible for a statutory or categorical exemption. Additionally, the bill extends the exemption for projects that do not affect wetlands or sensitive habitats until January 1, 2032, and expands the definition of a project for purposes…