---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency medical services: paramedics."
description: "Emergency medical services: paramedics."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1655"
citation: "California AB 1655 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency medical services: paramedics."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Negrete McLeod"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2004-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1c2ccdf-a125-4805-b953-b3ced1ea6fc8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655"
source_hash: "b120a2154bee74fbe65e29da9934917d21b7b1681455d402b1d2a64b91028674"
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 1655 (20032004) — Emergency medical services: paramedics.

## 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=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165599INT)
2. **01/05/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165598AMD)
3. **01/15/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165597AMD)
4. **06/02/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165596AMD)
5. **06/21/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165595AMD)
6. **09/14/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165593CHP)
7. **AB1655** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655)
8. **08/26/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1655&version=20030AB165594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1655 negrete mcleod assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- assembly 3rd reading ab1655 negrete mcle by alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 513, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2004-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7802.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 7819.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 5248.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-07-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-21** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-17** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 2.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-02-17** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `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 72. Noes 4. Page 4366.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 22. Noes 1.) (January 21). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-01-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 22. Noes 1.) (January 13). `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 Health. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `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/d1c2ccdf-a125-4805-b953-b3ced1ea6fc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).