---
type: "Bill"
title: "Seismic safety: insurance: retrofitting."
description: "Seismic safety: insurance: retrofitting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1598"
citation: "California AB 1598 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Seismic safety: insurance: retrofitting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/316fbf71-2e2a-445a-9f08-2519396c3b4d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1598"
source_hash: "0f5dc088a778478c1b3228fe8f09fc2fd1b510ebb4570c4f6d5e0f51182fd752"
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 1598 (20032004) — Seismic safety: insurance: retrofitting.

## 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=200320040AB1598&version=20030AB159899INT)
2. **04/22/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1598&version=20030AB159898AMD)
3. **09/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1598&version=20030AB159896CHP)
4. **AB1598** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1598)
5. **09/08/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1598&version=20030AB159897ENR)

## Votes

- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1598 corbett third reading urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1598 corbett by perata — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 448, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2003-09-09** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-09-08** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2376.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `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. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 4. Page 2081.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 28). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (April 9). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `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/316fbf71-2e2a-445a-9f08-2519396c3b4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).