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Bill	Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011: school and hospital notification of nonemergency excavation or construction of gas pipelines.	(1) Existing federal law requires the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) within the United States Department of Transportation, to adopt minimum safety standards for pipeline transportation and for pipeline facilities, including an interstate gas pipeline facility and intrastate gas pipeline facility, as defined. Existing law authorizes the United States Secretary of Transportation to prescribe or enforce safety standards and practices for an intrastate pipeline facility or intrastate pipeline transportation to the extent that the safety standards and practices are regulated by a state authority that submits to the secretary annually a certification for the facilities and transportation. Existing law authorizes a state authority that has submitted a current certification to adopt additional or more stringent safety standards for intrastate pipeline facilities and intrastate pipeline transportation only if those standards are compatible with the minimum standards prescribed by the PHMSA.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1937	California AB 1937 (20132014)	bill	Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011: school and hospital notification of nonemergency excavation or construction of gas pipelines.	enacted	Gordon	9	29	6	2014-02-19	2014-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/801ee2ca-7d4c-4ce2-b386-a31f1363f563	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1937	daa8442178bb9a602eefcb6a391641aa094fa7d9cc32aff24398f6d5a6c3b2b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1937 (20132014) — Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011: school and hospital notification of nonemergency excavation or construction of gas pipelines.

(1) Existing federal law requires the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) within the United States Department of Transportation, to adopt minimum safety standards for pipeline transportation and for pipeline facilities, including an interstate gas pipeline facility and intrastate gas pipeline facility, as defined. Existing law authorizes the United States Secretary of Transportation to prescribe or enforce safety standards and practices for an intrastate pipeline facility or intrastate pipeline transportation to the extent that the safety standards and practices are regulated by a state authority that submits to the secretary annually a certification for the facilities and transportation. Existing law authorizes a state authority that has submitted a current certification to adopt additional or more stringent safety standards for intrastate pipeline facilities and intrastate pipeline transportation only if those standards are compatible with the minimum standards prescribed by the PHMSA.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/11/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/30/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1937 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/13/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1937 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1937 GORDON Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1937 Gordon By Hill — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2014-03-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2014-04-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-21 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4633.)
• 2014-05-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-06 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5114.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4371.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5950.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2014-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 287, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/801ee2ca-7d4c-4ce2-b386-a31f1363f563. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).