republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1447.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: traffic synchronization."
description: "The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1447"
citation: "California AB 1447 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: traffic synchronization."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2014-01-06"
last_action: "2014-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf9d68be-c7ec-4273-9bb6-b096c2642fcc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447"
source_hash: "e67a524d011bc6e3d7e9711de8504cdc134707eb856b10ef43071f41c7cdc5cd"
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 1447 (20132014) — California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: traffic synchronization.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144799INT)
2. **02/18/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144798AMD)
3. **04/22/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144797AMD)
4. **06/12/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144796AMD)
5. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144795AMD)
6. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144793CHP)
7. **AB1447** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447)
8. **08/22/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1447&version=20130AB144794ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Transportation. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1447 WALDRON Assembly Third Reading — **70–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 1447 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1447 Waldron By Hill — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Waldron — primary (person)
- Brown — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- V. Manuel Pérez — author (person)
- Vidak — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
- **2014-01-17** Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-18** 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`
- **2014-02-19** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** From consent calendar.
- **2014-05-15** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 5021.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-08-11** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4616.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-20** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6239.)
- **2014-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6241.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 594, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf9d68be-c7ec-4273-9bb6-b096c2642fcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).