---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clean energy: Labor and Workforce Development Agency: Deputy Secretary for Climate."
description: "Existing law, the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, expresses a goal of creating good-paying energy efficiency and clean energy jobs in California. Existing law also expresses the state's policy that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2045."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2204"
citation: "California AB 2204 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Clean energy: Labor and Workforce Development Agency: Deputy Secretary for Climate."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boerner Horvath"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cebb9a9b-beb3-47fa-b771-35f208ebb688"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204"
source_hash: "e427ff6dbab2b34d573536e80d1eab71cdb75c430be25083472a328a2bcf422c"
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 2204 (20212022) — Clean energy: Labor and Workforce Development Agency: Deputy Secretary for Climate.

Existing law, the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, expresses a goal of creating good-paying energy efficiency and clean energy jobs in California. Existing law also expresses the state's policy that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2045.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220499INT)
2. **05/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220498AMD)
3. **08/01/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220497AMD)
4. **08/02/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220496AMD)
5. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220495AMD)
6. **08/22/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220494AMD)
7. **09/16/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220492CHP)
8. **AB2204** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204)
9. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2204&version=20210AB220493ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2204 Boerner Horvath et a By Becker — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **13–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 2204 Boerner Horvath Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **66–10** (pass) · lower
- AB 2204 Boerner Horvath Assembly Third Reading — **63–11** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy] — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boerner Horvath — primary (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (May 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 11.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E., U. & C. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-08-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-08** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 5181.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 10.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 348, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cebb9a9b-beb3-47fa-b771-35f208ebb688`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).