---
type: "Bill"
title: "School facilities: preliminary endangerment assessment: Phase I environmental assessment."
description: "School facilities: preliminary endangerment assessment: Phase I environmental assessment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 972"
citation: "California AB 972 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School facilities: preliminary endangerment assessment: Phase I environmental assessment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff69ff46-42ae-45cf-b920-00e6674fe10a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972"
source_hash: "0701219b5acdf36503fb30881310a8ed2ed4ddac2d3e0a9c808651faa8025828"
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 972 (20012002) — School facilities: preliminary endangerment assessment: Phase I environmental assessment.

## 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=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97299INT)
2. **03/27/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97298AMD)
3. **05/02/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97297AMD)
4. **05/25/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97296AMD)
5. **06/25/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97295AMD)
6. **09/04/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97294AMD)
7. **10/14/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97292CHP)
8. **AB972** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972)
9. **09/12/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB972&version=20010AB97293ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB972 Calderon By Alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 972 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 972 Calderon Special Consent Calendar 2nd Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 865, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-09-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2001-09-13** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3834.) `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. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2001-09-06** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2622.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-09-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2001-08-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-08-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-07-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **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 Com. on ENV. QUAL. `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 79. Noes 0. Page 1942.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-29** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 23). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-02** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-05-01** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-03-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. `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/ff69ff46-42ae-45cf-b920-00e6674fe10a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).