---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sentencing: great bodily injury: child."
description: "Sentencing: great bodily injury: child."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1789"
citation: "California AB 1789 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sentencing: great bodily injury: child."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zettel"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2000-01-26"
last_action: "2000-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1db3d600-db9b-4e77-b3b6-35a6f1ae36ea"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789"
source_hash: "ebcf8f8de71b6e4d1504da09efb09db65967020a7bfd09b3184de81afd84c3d9"
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 1789 (19992000) — Sentencing: great bodily injury: child.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/26/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789&version=19990AB178999INT)
2. **03/28/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789&version=19990AB178998AMD)
3. **07/05/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789&version=19990AB178997AMD)
4. **09/29/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789&version=19990AB178995CHP)
5. **AB1789** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789)
6. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1789&version=19990AB178996ENR)

## Votes

- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1789 Zettel — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1789 ZETTEL THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Set, first hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1789 ZETTEL SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Zettel — primary (person)
- Ashburn — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Battin — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Cunneen — coauthor (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- House — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Margett — coauthor (person)
- Oller — coauthor (person)
- Rainey — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 919, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2000-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 9026.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6349.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-22** Joint Rule 61(b)(14) suspended.
- **2000-08-07** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2000-07-05** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-20** In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
- **2000-06-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6698.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 24). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-03-27** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 14). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-02-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-01-31** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2000-01-27** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2000-01-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1db3d600-db9b-4e77-b3b6-35a6f1ae36ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).