---
type: "Bill"
title: "Political Reform Act of 1974: financial interest."
description: "Political Reform Act of 1974: financial interest."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1838"
citation: "California AB 1838 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Political Reform Act of 1974: financial interest."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leonard"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2000-02-03"
last_action: "2000-09-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab3bebe6-32a5-41ba-bc98-899dd1956b8c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838"
source_hash: "3475041333bce4bc0ac15fdc135ed419ce6001c4d0de243573874e36b459c588"
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 1838 (19992000) — Political Reform Act of 1974: financial interest.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838&version=19990AB183899INT)
2. **03/28/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838&version=19990AB183898AMD)
3. **07/05/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838&version=19990AB183897AMD)
4. **08/07/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838&version=19990AB183896AMD)
5. **09/08/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838&version=19990AB183894CHP)
6. **AB1838** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838)
7. **08/25/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1838&version=19990AB183895ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1838 LEONARD 3RD READING URGENCY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1838 Leonard O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1838 LEONARD CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leonard — primary (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Bock — coauthor (person)
- Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Cardenas — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Cunneen — coauthor (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Haynes — coauthor (person)
- House — coauthor (person)
- Johannessen — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 352, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2000-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 8285.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2000-08-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2. Page 5964.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-08-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-07-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-06-08** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `referral-committee`
- **2000-06-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-18** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 9. Page 6460.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-02-07** Referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2000-02-03** 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/ab3bebe6-32a5-41ba-bc98-899dd1956b8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).