California Assembly Bill 130 (AB 130) is a 2025 law which exempts most infill housing development from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The bill incorporated text from AB 609, drafted by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, while the bill itself was a budget trailer bill intended to be mandatory in order for the state budget to take effect. The bill was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on June 30, 2025.
The bill was signed by Newsom alongside California Senate Bill 131 (SB 131), another budget trailer law which incorporated text from SB 607 as drafted by Senator Scott Wiener. SB 131 exempts certain other projects from CEQA review, including advanced manufacturing in industrial districts, high-speed rail, and wildfire mitigation.
Both bills were pushed by Newsom, who required that both bills be incorporated into the state budget as a condition for his approval of the budget.
The bills' passage was well received by supporters of the YIMBY movement, while environmental groups worried about potential environmental and health consequences from the bills' carve-outs of CEQA.
Earlier language in both bills instituted lower prevailing wages for construction on housing projects than is standard in non-housing construction projects, which drew the opposition of trade unions, including the North America's Building Trades Unions president Sean McGarvey and AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, while gaining the support of the NorCal Carpenters Union. The language was removed on July 25, and opposing unions subsequently withdrew their opposition to the bills.