---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial guaranty insurance."
description: "Financial guaranty insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2142"
citation: "California AB 2142 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Financial guaranty insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chavez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2002-02-20"
last_action: "2002-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77ce8511-f976-4a38-ada0-53b8fa2d91e5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2142"
source_hash: "a15747f418168861f956014a37743498a2954cb1411a667412814a50d2149c40"
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 2142 (20012002) — Financial guaranty insurance.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2142&version=20010AB214299INT)
2. **06/30/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2142&version=20010AB214297CHP)
3. **AB2142** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2142)
4. **06/17/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2142&version=20010AB214298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2142 Chavez — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2142 Chavez Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chavez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-06-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 84, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-06-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2002-06-17** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-06-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4760.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-16** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6137.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2002-02-20** 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/77ce8511-f976-4a38-ada0-53b8fa2d91e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).