---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Memorial Scholarship Program: California memorial license plates."
description: "California Memorial Scholarship Program: California memorial license plates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1759"
citation: "California AB 1759 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Memorial Scholarship Program: California memorial license plates."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wesson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2002-01-07"
last_action: "2002-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de03788f-33af-4252-b2be-a4483e41f993"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759"
source_hash: "1a76b6bce33983f5c265e55d5b8d3373864c2115e19811a71b8f2b31dc1f7279"
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 1759 (20012002) — California Memorial Scholarship Program: California memorial license plates.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/07/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175999INT)
2. **01/18/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175998AMD)
3. **01/28/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175997AMD)
4. **02/27/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175996AMD)
5. **03/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175995AMD)
6. **05/13/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175993CHP)
7. **AB1759** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759)
8. **04/01/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1759&version=20010AB175994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Higher Education to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1759 Wesson Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1759 Wesson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Committee amendments. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1759 Wesson Murray — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wesson — primary (person)
- Aanestad — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Ashburn — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Bill Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Briggs — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Canciamilla — coauthor (person)
- Cardenas — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Chan — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Cox — author (person)
- Daucher — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Florez — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Harman — principal coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Hollingsworth — coauthor (person)
- Horton — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- John Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Kelley — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- La Suer — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Leonard — coauthor (person)
- Leslie — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Maldonado — coauthor (person)
- Margett — coauthor (person)
- Matthews — coauthor (person)
- McPherson — coauthor (person)
- Migden — coauthor (person)
- Mountjoy — coauthor (person)
- Murray — principal coauthor (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- Nation — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Oropeza — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Richman — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Rod Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Salinas — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Simitian — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Thomson — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)
- Wayne — coauthor (person)
- Wiggins — coauthor (person)
- Wright — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)
- Wyman — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-05-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 38, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-05-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-04-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2002-04-11** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly. Held in Engrossing and Enrolling.
- **2002-04-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2002-04-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5259.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-03-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 3540.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-03-13** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-03-04** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 4). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-03-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-02-27** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2002-02-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 20). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-02-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-02-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Education and Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-01-28** Amended. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 4590.) `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 with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 17). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-01-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Higher Education Re-referred. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 14). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-01-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation and Standing Committee on Higher Education Art. IV, Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with and Joint Rule 55 suspended. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2002-01-07** 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/de03788f-33af-4252-b2be-a4483e41f993`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).