---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prisons: construction."
description: "Prisons: construction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 900"
citation: "California AB 900 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Prisons: construction."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Solorio"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cafa4fc3-12de-4d75-be1c-6616df61b170"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB900"
source_hash: "73813e6f4071d7b81ce89b12ea60afa007dcbacc4883f4e28d641b0b63253b56"
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 900 (20072008) — Prisons: construction.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB900&version=20070AB90099INT)
2. **04/26/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB900&version=20070AB90098AMD)
3. **05/03/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB900&version=20070AB90096CHP)
4. **AB900** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB900)
5. **04/27/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB900&version=20070AB90097ENR)

## Votes

- W/O REF. TO FILE AB900 Solorio Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 900 SOLORIO Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB900 Nunez Invoke Constitution — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Solorio — primary (person)
- Aghazarian — author (person)
- Machado — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-03-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (April 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (April 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-04-26** Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended. (Page 1185.).
- **2007-04-26** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-26** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 1185.).
- **2007-04-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 1185.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-04-26** Unanimous consent granted to take up bill without reference to file.
- **2007-04-26** Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 754.)
- **2007-04-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-04-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 756.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-04-26** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2007-04-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2007-05-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-05-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cafa4fc3-12de-4d75-be1c-6616df61b170`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).