---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections: presidential nominations."
description: "Elections: presidential nominations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1680"
citation: "California AB 1680 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections: presidential nominations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Strickland"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5d43580-73f9-4da0-925e-ef76f281da11"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1680"
source_hash: "fdb4ec5ea12da3923a55fc0d1bccae10d31f870e1a5244f42eefcd370d498567"
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 1680 (20032004) — Elections: presidential nominations.

## 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=200320040AB1680&version=20030AB168099INT)
2. **07/16/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1680&version=20030AB168098AMD)
3. **09/12/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1680&version=20030AB168097AMD)
4. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1680&version=20030AB168095CHP)
5. **AB1680** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1680)
6. **09/13/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1680&version=20030AB168096ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1680 e.,r.& c.a. consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Strickland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 868, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2003-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 3910.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-12** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2579.). `passage, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-3, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1394.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-24** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `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/e5d43580-73f9-4da0-925e-ef76f281da11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).