---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental justice: guidelines."
description: "Environmental justice: guidelines."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1553"
citation: "California AB 1553 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental justice: guidelines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keeley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddb20980-47b0-46e7-be4f-3562061fd652"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553"
source_hash: "44495232af94658a5bafb49a1b203490ab19f2df7d4a75630206aa0c3a9fda93"
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 1553 (20012002) — Environmental justice: guidelines.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155399INT)
2. **05/01/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155398AMD)
3. **06/27/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155397AMD)
4. **07/05/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155396AMD)
5. **07/19/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155395AMD)
6. **08/29/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155394AMD)
7. **10/12/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155392CHP)
8. **AB1553** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553)
9. **09/10/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1553&version=20010AB155393ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1553 Keeley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1553 Keeley Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Local Government. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1553 Keeley By Machado — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Keeley — primary (person)
- Machado — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 762, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2001-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 44. Noes 32. Page 3631.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-09-06** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 2626.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-08-29** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-07-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-07-09** Joint Rule 61 (a)(9) suspended (Page 1890.)
- **2001-07-05** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-03** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government (Ayes 6. Noes 1.). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-27** 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`
- **2001-06-14** Referred to ENV. QUAL. and Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 29. Page 1864.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 7.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-04-30** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (April 25). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2001-02-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddb20980-47b0-46e7-be4f-3562061fd652`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).