---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy conservation."
description: "Energy conservation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002 Special Session 2"
identifier: "AB 48"
citation: "California AB 48 (20012002 Special Session 2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy conservation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wright"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2001-05-22"
last_action: "2001-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aacbb670-476b-4e0f-b8da-37e20f647c7f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48"
source_hash: "b440fcd3971f9ca49836877c06291774b23511ac3cdb5ad913033db11fc52630"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 48 (20012002 Special Session 2) — Energy conservation.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **05/22/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4899INT)
2. **06/25/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4898AMD)
3. **07/02/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4897AMD)
4. **07/10/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4896AMD)
5. **08/20/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4895AMD)
6. **08/28/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4894AMD)
7. **09/05/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4893AMD)
8. **10/12/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4891CHP)
9. **AB48** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48)
10. **09/14/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120022AB48&version=20012AB4892ENR)

## Votes

- AB 48 Wright Concurrence in Senate Amendments Second Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 48 Wright Third Reading Urgency Second Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB48 Wright By Peace — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 17, Statutes of 2001-02 Second Extraordinary Session.
- **2001-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-10-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2001-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 372.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2001-09-13** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 208.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2001-09-05** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-04** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-07-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-09** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2001-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ENV. QUAL. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ENV. QUAL. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-12** Referred to ENV. QUAL. and Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 91.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-29** Referred to Com. on RLs. From committee: Do pass. (Pursuant to Assembly Rule 51.3). (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-23** From printer.
- **2001-05-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aacbb670-476b-4e0f-b8da-37e20f647c7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).