---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural land conservation."
description: "Agricultural land conservation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1492"
citation: "California AB 1492 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural land conservation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/882fff91-c563-4e30-8101-79d2fc9241a0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492"
source_hash: "dcf72671ebaf4fedf9346bdee627beb6a0bd5e71292f8099e7b74da559a18807"
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 1492 (20032004) — Agricultural land conservation.

## 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=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149299INT)
2. **05/01/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149298AMD)
3. **05/13/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149297AMD)
4. **06/26/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149296AMD)
5. **07/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149295AMD)
6. **07/15/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149294AMD)
7. **09/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149293AMD)
8. **09/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149292AMD)
9. **10/09/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149290CHP)
10. **AB1492** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492)
11. **09/11/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1492&version=20030AB149291ENR)

## Votes

- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and be re-referred to the committee on natural resources. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1492 laird concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1492 laird assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab1492 laird by torlakson — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Laird — primary (person)
- Berg — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 694, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3819.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 2432.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-03** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-15** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-14** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 3.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-27** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 21. Page 1914.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 4.) (May 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-22** (Corrected May 21. )
- **2003-05-14** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-13** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-12** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (May 8). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-05** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Natural Resources. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** Joint Rule 61(a)(2) suspended. (Standing Committee on Natural Resources) (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1379.) From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Natural Resources Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Natural Resources Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-03-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture and Standing Committee on Natural Resources. `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/882fff91-c563-4e30-8101-79d2fc9241a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).