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Bill	Environmental protection: coastal adaptation projects: natural infrastructure: regulatory review and permitting: report.	Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law requires the agency, by July 1, 2017, and every 3 years thereafter, to update the state's climate adaptation strategy to identify vulnerabilities to climate change by sectors and priority actions needed to reduce the risks in those sectors.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 72	California AB 72 (20212022)	bill	Environmental protection: coastal adaptation projects: natural infrastructure: regulatory review and permitting: report.	enacted	Petrie-Norris	5	23	8	2020-12-07	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/7dd23aa3-c713-4835-a9f3-04aa590a21a0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB72	c0faadfd92a591a638295811c2e17345adbc5c7d7c1dd2aa466453a2daeb8f3f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 72 (20212022) — Environmental protection: coastal adaptation projects: natural infrastructure: regulatory review and permitting: report.

Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law requires the agency, by July 1, 2017, and every 3 years thereafter, to update the state's climate adaptation strategy to identify vulnerabilities to climate change by sectors and priority actions needed to reduce the risks in those sectors.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/28/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB72 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB72 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 72 Petrie-Norris Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 72 Petrie-Norris Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Petrie-Norris — primary (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1621.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2388.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2839.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 369, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7dd23aa3-c713-4835-a9f3-04aa590a21a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).