---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human services."
description: "Human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 444"
citation: "California AB 444 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Human services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2001-02-20"
last_action: "2002-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/266e99f2-62b7-4b98-ba7e-a2fa8512b906"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444"
source_hash: "6dc75fe2a4443275d9f7bdc059aded6f9ea774a43023273cda5e657dc8b2bc7a"
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 444 (20012002) — Human services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444&version=20010AB44499INT)
2. **05/23/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444&version=20010AB44498AMD)
3. **06/24/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444&version=20010AB44497AMD)
4. **06/29/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444&version=20010AB44496AMD)
5. **09/28/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444&version=20010AB44494CHP)
6. **AB444** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444)
7. **09/01/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB444&version=20010AB44495ENR)

## Votes

- AB 444 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 444 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB444 Committee on Budget (Oropeza) — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1022, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-09-01** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 54. Noes 26. Page 8791.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-06-29** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 5098.) `reading-1, reading-3, passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-24** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file. Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 0. Page 1841.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-05-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 10.) (May 22). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Budget. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2001-02-20** 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/266e99f2-62b7-4b98-ba7e-a2fa8512b906`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).