republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-341.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Green building standards."
description: "Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to codify all building standards of adopting agencies or state agencies that propose the building standards and statutes defining building standards into one California Building Standards Code. Existing law provides that if no state agency has the authority or expertise to propose green building standards applicable to a particular occupancy, the commission shall adopt, approve, codify, update, and publish green building standards for those occupancies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 341"
citation: "California AB 341 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Green building standards."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dickinson"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-13"
last_action: "2013-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d90de1bc-5477-4087-936b-c72ec8b76a33"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341"
source_hash: "2b4802a18f2ca7af53afa7fd30f0b9b6863e4a73369be2e01357bca039cee05f"
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 341 (20132014) — Green building standards.

Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to codify all building standards of adopting agencies or state agencies that propose the building standards and statutes defining building standards into one California Building Standards Code. Existing law provides that if no state agency has the authority or expertise to propose green building standards applicable to a particular occupancy, the commission shall adopt, approve, codify, update, and publish green building standards for those occupancies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34199INT)
2. **03/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34198AMD)
3. **04/04/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34197AMD)
4. **04/23/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34196AMD)
5. **05/08/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34195AMD)
6. **06/10/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34194AMD)
7. **06/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34193AMD)
8. **10/05/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34191CHP)
9. **AB341** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341)
10. **09/05/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB341&version=20130AB34192ENR)

## Votes

- AB 341 DICKINSON Assembly Third Reading — **76–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB341 Dickinson By Lieu — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 341 DICKINSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dickinson — primary (person)
- Gordon — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2013-03-19** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** 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`
- **2013-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** 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`
- **2013-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-23** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1667.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E., U., & C. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1976.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 2769.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 585, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d90de1bc-5477-4087-936b-c72ec8b76a33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).