---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Emergency Services: demonstration project."
description: "Office of Emergency Services: demonstration project."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1509"
citation: "California AB 1509 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Office of Emergency Services: demonstration project."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benoit"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fd4f49f-e8de-48b2-86b6-dcbfe216d4eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1509"
source_hash: "56ec09023c6178319584c19c862678af7fedb7f4274b148267e1f18184eb0f8b"
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 1509 (20032004) — Office of Emergency Services: demonstration project.

## 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=200320040AB1509&version=20030AB150999INT)
2. **04/30/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1509&version=20030AB150998AMD)
3. **08/04/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1509&version=20030AB150996CHP)
4. **AB1509** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1509)
5. **07/21/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1509&version=20030AB150997ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1509 benoit assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent #20 ab1509 benoit — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Benoit — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 184, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-08-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-07-24** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-21** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1917.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2075.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 23. Noes 1.) (May 28). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-30** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-29** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (April 21). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `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/0fd4f49f-e8de-48b2-86b6-dcbfe216d4eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).