republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-44.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disaster relief: earthquake."
description: "Disaster relief: earthquake."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 44"
citation: "California AB 44 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disaster relief: earthquake."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2000-12-04"
last_action: "2001-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd906056-0101-46d4-b4eb-e2f6afa7fe01"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44"
source_hash: "0554320fbe6ec1a206a3013f66bbe6cfa19d9abd903238c786bc9091ce3cb2fa"
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 44 (20012002) — Disaster relief: earthquake.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/04/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44&version=20010AB4499INT)
2. **03/20/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44&version=20010AB4498AMD)
3. **08/20/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44&version=20010AB4497AMD)
4. **09/07/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44&version=20010AB4496AMD)
5. **10/09/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44&version=20010AB4494CHP)
6. **AB44** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44)
7. **09/14/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB44&version=20010AB4495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 44 Wiggins Special Consent Calendar 2nd Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Amend, and do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB44 Wiggins By Chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 44 Wiggins Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)
- Chesbro — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-10-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2001-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3986.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2001-09-12** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2842.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-09-07** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2001-09-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2001-08-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-16** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2001-06-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **2001-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-06-04** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2019.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-31** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 31). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1856.)
- **2001-04-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-03** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 884.)
- **2001-03-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-20** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-03-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 12). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-02-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **2000-12-05** From printer. May be heard in committee January 4.
- **2000-12-04** 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/fd906056-0101-46d4-b4eb-e2f6afa7fe01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).