---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental justice."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection, on or before January 1, 2002, to convene a Working Group on Environmental Justice composed of various representatives, as specified, to assist the California Environmental Protection Agency in developing by July 1, 2002, an agencywide environmental justice strategy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1628"
citation: "California AB 1628 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental justice."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Rivas"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91a3b8e7-8316-4a0a-9e2d-f56d8b9c0a69"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628"
source_hash: "ac7a849b76217cdda08c1ede28821779c031feed52b2adda6ca443d2165eb3eb"
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 1628 (20192020) — Environmental justice.

(1) Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection, on or before January 1, 2002, to convene a Working Group on Environmental Justice composed of various representatives, as specified, to assist the California Environmental Protection Agency in developing by July 1, 2002, an agencywide environmental justice strategy.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628&version=20190AB162899INT)
2. **06/14/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628&version=20190AB162898AMD)
3. **08/26/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628&version=20190AB162897AMD)
4. **09/27/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628&version=20190AB162895CHP)
5. **AB1628** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628)
6. **09/12/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1628&version=20190AB162896ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1628 Robert Rivas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **61–15** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1628 Robert Rivas et al. By Gonzalez — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 1628 Robert Rivas Assembly Third Reading — **57–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robert Rivas — primary (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-18** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 15. Page 1632.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-26** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2504.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 15. Page 3115.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 360, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91a3b8e7-8316-4a0a-9e2d-f56d8b9c0a69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).