---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legal assistants."
description: "Legal assistants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1698"
citation: "California AB 1698 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal assistants."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Judiciary"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2001-03-06"
last_action: "2002-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa77af06-cb4d-4142-8cb5-63b27fd19e8f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698"
source_hash: "8efd33b51dac3782be383391ac6cbc283237a0780c1713848f3fdd9046b74bed"
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 1698 (20012002) — Legal assistants.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/06/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698&version=20010AB169899INT)
2. **01/14/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698&version=20010AB169898AMD)
3. **01/18/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698&version=20010AB169897AMD)
4. **08/20/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698&version=20010AB169896AMD)
5. **09/28/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698&version=20010AB169894CHP)
6. **AB1698** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698)
7. **08/30/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1698&version=20010AB169895ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1698 JUD. Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1698 Committee on Jud. (Steinberg) By Kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1698 JUD. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By Steinberg — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1018, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2002-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 8596.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2002-08-29** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 5926.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-28** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-27** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-21** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2002-08-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-02-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-01-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 4627.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-01-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (January 24). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-01-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-18** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-01-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 15). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-01-15** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-07** From printer. May be heard in committee April 6.
- **2001-03-06** 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/fa77af06-cb4d-4142-8cb5-63b27fd19e8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).