--- type: "Bill" title: "Elections: unlawful expenditures." description: "Elections: unlawful expenditures." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "19992000" identifier: "AB 2078" citation: "California AB 2078 (19992000)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Elections: unlawful expenditures."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Granlund"] version_count: 9 action_count: 33 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2000-02-22" last_action: "2000-09-29" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e58c0274-89fc-4c78-9f6f-e9c4b62da8f5" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078" source_hash: "ac70865d655f3641c07f749cfc6f000b0cc90f2ca2649152578f37cf14fdf38a" 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 2078 (19992000) — Elections: unlawful expenditures. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/22/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207899INT) 2. **05/15/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207898AMD) 3. **06/12/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207897AMD) 4. **08/07/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207896AMD) 5. **08/18/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207895AMD) 6. **08/25/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207894AMD) 7. **09/29/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207892CHP) 8. **AB2078** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078) 9. **08/30/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2078&version=19990AB207893ENR) ## Votes - Assembly 3rd Reading AB2078 Granlund By Poochigian — **pass** (pass) · upper - Assembly 3rd Reading AB2078 Granlund Poochigian — **pass** (pass) · upper - Set, first hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — **pass** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper - AB 2078 GRANLUND CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower - AB 2078 GRANLUND THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended. — **fail** (fail) · upper ## Sponsors - Granlund — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2000-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 840, Statutes of 2000. - **2000-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2000-09-12** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m. - **2000-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 8738.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2000-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2000-08-29** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6239.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2000-08-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2000-08-25** In Senate. Held at Desk. Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2000-08-25** Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on E., R. & C. A. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Ordered returned to Senate. `referral-committee` - **2000-08-24** Re-referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee` - **2000-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. - **2000-08-23** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 3. Page 5924.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2000-08-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2000-08-18** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, 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** Joint Rule 61(b)(12) suspended. - **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` - **2000-06-21** In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. - **2000-06-21** Reconsideration granted. - **2000-06-12** 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` - **2000-06-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `referral-committee` - **2000-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1` - **2000-05-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 6564.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2000-05-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2000-05-18** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file. - **2000-05-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee` - **2000-05-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2000-05-11** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee` - **2000-04-27** Joint Rule 61 (b)(5) suspended. - **2000-03-23** Referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `referral-committee` - **2000-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24. - **2000-02-22** 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/e58c0274-89fc-4c78-9f6f-e9c4b62da8f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).