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Bill	Building standards: installation of electric vehicle charging stations: existing buildings.	Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1738	California AB 1738 (20212022)	bill	Building standards: installation of electric vehicle charging stations: existing buildings.	enacted	Boerner Horvath	8	28	9	2022-01-31	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/195dce3b-1e93-4337-8ed1-18de0b372fc7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1738	2a86ddd94b4a670bd24482ba78545db1de34cea990fa0252a88303f44f6531cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1738 (20212022) — Building standards: installation of electric vehicle charging stations: existing buildings.

Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1738 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1738 Boerner Horvath et a By Becker — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1738 Boerner Horvath Assembly Third Reading — 46–21 (pass) · lower
• AB 1738 Boerner Horvath Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Boerner Horvath — primary (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2022-02-10 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and ED. referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 21.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 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, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-20 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 5054.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 15.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 687, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/195dce3b-1e93-4337-8ed1-18de0b372fc7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).