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type: "Bill"
title: "Fire safety: fire retardants: building insulation."
description: "Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt regulations pertaining to urea formaldehyde foam insulation materials that are reasonably necessary to protect the public health and safety. Existing law provides that these regulations may include prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or installation of this insulation. Existing law also authorizes the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation to establish by regulation insulation material standards governing the quality of all insulation material sold or installed in the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 127"
citation: "California AB 127 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fire safety: fire retardants: building insulation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-01-14"
last_action: "2013-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a58dabc-23eb-488d-baef-9b2356cf53b2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127"
source_hash: "d964035ba463bfe75a464d53a08e576836fc07e0fb54dc0e7df11e00c70e7a6c"
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 127 (20132014) — Fire safety: fire retardants: building insulation.
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt regulations pertaining to urea formaldehyde foam insulation materials that are reasonably necessary to protect the public health and safety. Existing law provides that these regulations may include prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or installation of this insulation. Existing law also authorizes the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation to establish by regulation insulation material standards governing the quality of all insulation material sold or installed in the state.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/14/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12799INT)
2. **03/21/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12798AMD)
3. **04/01/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12797AMD)
4. **04/22/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12796AMD)
5. **05/29/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12795AMD)
6. **06/24/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12794AMD)
7. **09/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12793AMD)
8. **10/05/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12791CHP)
9. **AB127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127)
10. **09/18/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB127&version=20130AB12792ENR)
## Votes
- AB 127 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **762** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **125** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB127 Skinner By De León — **297** (pass) · upper
- AB 127 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — **4926** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **61** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **63** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **60** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Skinner — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-01-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-15** From printer. May be heard in committee February 14.
- **2013-03-21** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1723.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-30** Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 1809.)
- **2013-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 1836.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-13** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-12** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 2330.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3227.)
- **2013-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 3229.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a58dabc-23eb-488d-baef-9b2356cf53b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).