---
type: "Bill"
title: "Investigative consumer reporting agencies."
description: "Investigative consumer reporting agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1399"
citation: "California AB 1399 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Investigative consumer reporting agencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Longville"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/915a39d8-ffc8-433a-94aa-5efe83482043"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399"
source_hash: "f9fc12e6b9e63b52ed00a63eb38400a5edec04651aea501db4c3ea963c5a5aee"
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 1399 (20032004) — Investigative consumer reporting agencies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399&version=20030AB139999INT)
2. **04/23/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399&version=20030AB139998AMD)
3. **05/08/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399&version=20030AB139997AMD)
4. **07/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399&version=20030AB139996AMD)
5. **08/01/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399&version=20030AB139994CHP)
6. **AB1399** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399)
7. **07/21/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1399&version=20030AB139995ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1399 longville concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent #19 ab1399 longville — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1399 longville assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Longville — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 146, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2003-07-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2846.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-15** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1827.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-08** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1848.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2003-05-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2003-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2003-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/915a39d8-ffc8-433a-94aa-5efe83482043`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).