Rules committee approves consent agenda; AB 2032 sent for double referral

The California State Assembly Rules Committee approved its consent agenda and directed that AB 2032 be sent on a double referral to the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and the Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee, the chair said.

The chair opened the meeting, called for the roll and announced a consent agenda. The chair also stated that "the referral of AB 2032 has been changed to a double referral to Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee." The transcript does not record a named member making or seconding the motion on the consent agenda.

The secretary conducted a roll call vote on the consent agenda. The transcript shows a sequence of affirmative responses recorded as "Aye." There are 36 recorded "Aye" lines in the transcript read-back before the chair declared, "Motion passes and rules committee is now adjourned." Several member names appear in the roll call (for example, Pacheco; A. Gonzales; Irwin; Rodriguez; Sanchez; Zuber), but the transcript format does not clearly pair every name with a discrete vote response; the meeting record here therefore reports the recorded 'Aye' responses and the chair's announcement of passage rather than assigning votes to particular members with certainty.

The action sends AB 2032 to two policy committees for further consideration; no further debate or public testimony on AB 2032 is recorded in this transcript. The committee adjourned immediately after the roll call vote.

Next steps: AB 2032 will proceed to the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and the Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee for additional committee-level consideration and any subsequent hearings or votes.