---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Holocaust and genocide."
description: "The Holocaust and genocide."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2003"
citation: "California AB 2003 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["The Holocaust and genocide."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Koretz"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2002-02-15"
last_action: "2002-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad6d7934-baf0-4755-897e-0951593afaf0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003"
source_hash: "11ea3c587a449c8117bf7d7c2df033b3f9ac0ac8316f972d4f29257601c60199"
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 2003 (20012002) — The Holocaust and genocide.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200399INT)
2. **03/21/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200398AMD)
3. **04/16/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200397AMD)
4. **05/23/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200396AMD)
5. **06/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200395AMD)
6. **08/22/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200394AMD)
7. **08/28/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200393AMD)
8. **09/19/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200391CHP)
9. **AB2003** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003)
10. **08/30/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2003&version=20010AB200392ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 2nd Reading AB2003 Koretz By O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2003 Koretz Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2003 Koretz Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- 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. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Koretz — primary (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Aroner — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cardenas — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — principal coauthor (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Goldberg — coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Horton — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Karnette — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Kelley — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Migden — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Oropeza — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Perata — coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)
- Polanco — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Richman — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — principal coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Salinas — coauthor (person)
- Scott — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Simitian — coauthor (person)
- Speier — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Wesson — coauthor (person)
- Wyman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 702, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-19** 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 79. Noes 0. Page 8597.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2002-08-29** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5956.) `reading-2, reading-1, reading-3, passage`
- **2002-08-28** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-08-27** Joint Rule 61(b)(5) suspended.
- **2002-08-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.). Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-20** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2002-08-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-15** Joint Rule 61(b)(12) suspended.
- **2002-08-15** Joint Rules 61(a)(13) and 61(a)(14) suspended.
- **2002-08-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-25** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-20** In committee: Placed on Education suspense file.
- **2002-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2002-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6615.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 22). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-17** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-16** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 3). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2002-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-02-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2002-02-15** 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/ad6d7934-baf0-4755-897e-0951593afaf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).