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Bill	Native American graves protection and repatriation.	Native American graves protection and repatriation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20012002	AB 978	California AB 978 (20012002)	bill	Native American graves protection and repatriation.	enacted	Steinberg	9	29	8	2001-02-23	2001-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/9c701ade-2a13-4a12-8f1b-48aa87c2c802	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB978	3c184a1152911c14403745545534ee159371f343f033a2b955e46f733d3aa25c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 978 (20012002) — Native American graves protection and repatriation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/01 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/01 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/22/01 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/17/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/01 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB978 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/01 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 978 Steinberg Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB978 Steinberg By Brulte — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 978 Steinberg Special Consent Calendar 2nd Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Steinberg — primary (person)
• Alpert — coauthor (person)
• Aroner — coauthor (person)
• Battin — coauthor (person)
• Brulte — coauthor (person)
• Burton — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Chan — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• Correa — coauthor (person)
• Figueroa — coauthor (person)
• Frommer — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Hollingsworth — coauthor (person)
• Karnette — coauthor (person)
• Kelley — coauthor (person)
• Koretz — coauthor (person)
• Kuehl — coauthor (person)
• Leonard — coauthor (person)
• McClintock — coauthor (person)
• Nation — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
• Soto — coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (person)
• Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
• Vargas — coauthor (person)
• Vincent — coauthor (person)
• Washington — coauthor (person)
• Wesson — coauthor (person)
• Zettel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2001-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 818, Statutes of 2001.
• 2001-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2001-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2001-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3943.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2001-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2001-09-10 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2758.) passage, reading-1, 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
• 2001-08-21 (Corrected August 20. )
• 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
• 2001-07-17 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage
• 2001-07-16 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2001-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-07-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2001-06-19 Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. referral-committee
• 2001-06-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2001-06-06 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2240.) 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
• 2001-05-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. referral-committee
• 2001-05-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1856.)
• 2001-05-23 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2001-05-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2001-04-25 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2001-04-23 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. referral-committee
• 2001-04-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Read second time and amended. reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-03-22 Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. referral-committee
• 2001-02-26 Read first time. reading-1
• 2001-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2001-02-23 Introduced. To print. introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c701ade-2a13-4a12-8f1b-48aa87c2c802. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).