---
type: "Bill"
title: "School finance: emergency apportionments and lease financing."
description: "School finance: emergency apportionments and lease financing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1554"
citation: "California AB 1554 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["School finance: emergency apportionments and lease financing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keene"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2004-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46d6694b-67af-4826-af7a-1eee4116456e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554"
source_hash: "dfbb9eccdd9b0d75c33bf4867f344edfd026571137df94c57cbae70dba69bd1c"
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 1554 (20032004) — School finance: emergency apportionments and lease 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=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155499INT)
2. **03/28/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155498AMD)
3. **04/30/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155497AMD)
4. **06/03/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155496AMD)
5. **06/21/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155494AMD)
6. **07/07/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155493AMD)
7. **07/14/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155492AMD)
8. **07/16/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155495AMD)
9. **08/23/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155490CHP)
10. **AB1554** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554)
11. **08/12/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1554&version=20030AB155491ENR)

## Votes

- 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
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1554 keene by alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1554 keene assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1554 keene concurrence- urgency added — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Keene — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 263, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2004-08-12** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 7061.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-07-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4753.) Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 1. Page 4753.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-14** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-07** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-22** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-16** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2264.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 28). Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, 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, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-04-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `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/46d6694b-67af-4826-af7a-1eee4116456e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).