---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government financing."
description: "Local government financing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1457"
citation: "California AB 1457 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Local government financing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2004-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af8fbd65-c18f-448f-b2d9-5c9d6974f68a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457"
source_hash: "ab3f67c3b44c61b8e1b2df9dd47706a8fe25c54752b1ab622dcbed910fc25893"
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 1457 (20032004) — Local government financing.

## 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=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145799INT)
2. **04/21/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145796AMD)
3. **04/22/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145798AMD)
4. **05/03/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145795AMD)
5. **05/04/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145793CHP)
6. **06/17/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145797AMD)
7. **AB1457** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457)
8. **05/03/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1457&version=20030AB145794ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1457 u.& c. third reading urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1457 budget concurrence in senate amendments by steinberg — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab1457 committee on budget (oropeza) by alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-05-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 37, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-05-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-05-04** Enrolled and to the Governor at 8:15 a.m.
- **2004-05-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 5491.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5491.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-05-03** Read third time and amended. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 3543.) `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2004-04-21** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-14** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-06-17** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-16** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1246.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (April 9). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-02** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Utilities and Commerce. `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/af8fbd65-c18f-448f-b2d9-5c9d6974f68a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).