republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-2800.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Climate change: state infrastructure planning: Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group."
description: "Existing law requires state agencies to take into account the current and future impacts of climate change when planning, designing, building, operating, maintaining, and investing in state infrastructure, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2800"
citation: "California AB 2800 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Climate change: state infrastructure planning: Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7d2be03-6cd5-4447-812b-700cc5a3cc4e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800"
source_hash: "2bf9d1e9c8faed55d04ebff62b4810e14377672aa44382b66fda79951593007f"
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 2800 (20192020) — Climate change: state infrastructure planning: Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group.

Existing law requires state agencies to take into account the current and future impacts of climate change when planning, designing, building, operating, maintaining, and investing in state infrastructure, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280099INT)
2. **03/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280098AMD)
3. **06/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280097AMD)
4. **08/06/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280096AMD)
5. **08/24/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280095AMD)
6. **09/24/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280093CHP)
7. **AB2800** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800)
8. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2800&version=20190AB280094ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **13–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2800 Quirk et al. By Caballero — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- AB 2800 Quirk Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **63–10** (pass) · lower
- AB 2800 Quirk Assembly Third Reading By CHAU — **62–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2020-03-02** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-03-05** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 4793.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (August 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 5421.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 118, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7d2be03-6cd5-4447-812b-700cc5a3cc4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).