---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental quality: local agency filing."
description: "Environmental quality: local agency filing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 677"
citation: "California AB 677 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental quality: local agency filing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Firebaugh"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/195037a1-c7b8-44af-9877-b249e6941648"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677"
source_hash: "64e31977a8aae682de57f46680c4d75b284bc3cee2e395899629bd8071332fad"
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 677 (20032004) — Environmental quality: local agency filing.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677&version=20030AB67799INT)
2. **03/27/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677&version=20030AB67798AMD)
3. **09/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677&version=20030AB67797AMD)
4. **09/04/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677&version=20030AB67796AMD)
5. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677&version=20030AB67794CHP)
6. **AB677** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677)
7. **09/11/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB677&version=20030AB67795ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab677 firebaugh by cedillo — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 677 firebaugh concurrence in senate amendments by montanez — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 677 firebaugh assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Firebaugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 837, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2003-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 69. Noes 10. Page 3780.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 3. Page 2423.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-09-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to Com. on ENV. QUAL. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 8. Page 1685.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 22. Noes 2.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Natural Resources Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-02-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2003-02-19** 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/195037a1-c7b8-44af-9877-b249e6941648`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).