We study the preservation under projective ccc forcing extensions of the property of
L(ℝ) being a Solovay model. We prove that this property is preserved by
every strongly-Σ31 absolutely-ccc forcing extension, and that this is essentially
the optimal preservation result, i.e., it does not hold for δ31
absolutely-ccc forcing notions. We extend these results to the higher projective
classes of ccc posets, and to the class of all projective ccc posets, using
definably-Mahlo cardinals. As a consequence we obtain an exact equiconsistency result
for generic absoluteness under projective absolutely-ccc forcing notions.