---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment."
description: "Employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1643"
citation: "California AB 1643 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ridley-Thomas"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2004-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03c16cdd-f13e-496f-baa1-4227e4482ce3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643"
source_hash: "4c0ef13e5904cb56923561f3511d7c91f5cfde12d84c6dc709e96b882d902eb1"
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 1643 (20032004) — Employment.

## 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=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164399INT)
2. **01/05/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164396AMD)
3. **04/08/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164398AMD)
4. **04/19/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164395AMD)
5. **05/07/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164397AMD)
6. **06/29/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164394AMD)
7. **08/05/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164393AMD)
8. **08/17/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164392AMD)
9. **08/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164391AMD)
10. **09/28/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164389CHP)
11. **AB1643** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643)
12. **08/25/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1643&version=20030AB164390ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1643 ridley-thomas concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1643 ridley-thoma by alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1643 ridley-thomas assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ridley-Thomas — primary (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Montanez — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 828, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-25** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7721.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 50. Noes 28. Page 7723.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 5257.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2004-08-05** 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`
- **2004-08-04** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2004-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-29** 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`
- **2004-06-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-04-19** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-16** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 1.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-02-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-01-26** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 4365.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 4.) (January 21). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-07** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (January 7). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-01-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-10** 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/03c16cdd-f13e-496f-baa1-4227e4482ce3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).