---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business plans: combustible metals."
description: "Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1689"
citation: "California AB 1689 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business plans: combustible metals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-23"
last_action: "2017-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64be2cc6-be28-481a-ba24-6c630aafdf7f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1689"
source_hash: "dab62c95614c78d58c192a61799d154c6f0d7fb5b7802e504fcfb0aa634182b1"
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 1689 (20172018) — Business plans: combustible metals.

Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1689&version=20170AB168999INT)
2. **05/31/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1689&version=20170AB168998AMD)
3. **07/31/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1689&version=20170AB168996CHP)
4. **AB1689** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1689)
5. **07/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1689&version=20170AB168997ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1689 E.S. & T.M. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1689 E.S. & T.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By QUIRK — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1689 E.S. & T.M. Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2017-03-16** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1485.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-10** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2025.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-07-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2570.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-07-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-07-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-31** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 159, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64be2cc6-be28-481a-ba24-6c630aafdf7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).