---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: biotechnology employment and development."
description: "Employment: biotechnology employment and development."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1551"
citation: "California AB 1551 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment: biotechnology employment and development."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kehoe"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d19ddb32-1cc8-4d51-94f6-55d7a28a5942"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551"
source_hash: "828367e56fab3798e7ca2dc403f2c69c00578e675de3e87c9b27837c939e1c84"
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 1551 (20032004) — Employment: biotechnology employment and development.

## 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=200320040AB1551&version=20030AB155199INT)
2. **04/30/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551&version=20030AB155198AMD)
3. **07/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551&version=20030AB155197AMD)
4. **09/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551&version=20030AB155196AMD)
5. **09/30/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551&version=20030AB155194CHP)
6. **AB1551** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551)
7. **09/11/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551&version=20030AB155195ENR)

## Votes

- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1551 kehoe assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1551 kehoe concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1551 kehoe by morrow — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kehoe — primary (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Ducheny — coauthor (person)
- Plescia — coauthor (person)
- Scott — coauthor (person)
- Shirley Horton — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 628, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2003-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 3788.) `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 8. Page 2418.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `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 56. Noes 24. Page 2084.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 4.) (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 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `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/d19ddb32-1cc8-4d51-94f6-55d7a28a5942`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).