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Bill	Environment: California-Mexico border.	Existing law creates the California Border Environmental and Public Health Protection Fund. The money in that fund is available, upon appropriation, to the Secretary for Environmental Protection to assist local governments in implementation of projects to identify and resolve environmental and public health problems that directly threaten the health or environmental quality of California residents or sensitive natural resources of the California border region, to provide technical assistance, to provide funds for equipment and labor costs associated with emergency abatement of environmental and public health problems imposed on residents of California due to cross-border impacts of pollutants originating from Baja California, and to provide analytical and scientific equipment and services needed by border area public agencies to identify and monitor the sources of environmental and public health threats posed by the cross-border transmission of environmental pollutants and toxics.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1079	California AB 1079 (20092010)	bill	Environment: California-Mexico border.	enacted	V. Manuel Perez	8	26	8	2009-02-27	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ec37f175-fef1-46e1-8bfa-e708e3b2ca0a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1079	cabfb3714f53b7db2af8b837e9c432fc64086e3c3023977f7eab1ce39be8973d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1079 (20092010) — Environment: California-Mexico border.

Existing law creates the California Border Environmental and Public Health Protection Fund. The money in that fund is available, upon appropriation, to the Secretary for Environmental Protection to assist local governments in implementation of projects to identify and resolve environmental and public health problems that directly threaten the health or environmental quality of California residents or sensitive natural resources of the California border region, to provide technical assistance, to provide funds for equipment and labor costs associated with emergency abatement of environmental and public health problems imposed on residents of California due to cross-border impacts of pollutants originating from Baja California, and to provide analytical and scientific equipment and services needed by border area public agencies to identify and monitor the sources of environmental and public health threats posed by the cross-border transmission of environmental pollutants and toxics.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1079 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1079 PEREZ, V.M. Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1079 PEREZ, V.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1079 V. Manuel Perez By Ducheny — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• V. Manuel Perez — primary (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Ducheny — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-03-31 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2009-04-29 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 12. Page 2040.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-18 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2009-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-07 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-07-23 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2161.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 26. Page 3191.)
• 2009-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 61. Noes 16. Page 3258.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 382, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec37f175-fef1-46e1-8bfa-e708e3b2ca0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).