---
type: "Bill"
title: "Car washes."
description: "Car washes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1688"
citation: "California AB 1688 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Car washes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goldberg"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99bfed2c-6356-48e7-a26c-6515609086d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688"
source_hash: "bbc37461453adc01d52dc555f01434065c503ed42e6fa56e38fb036e37476330"
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 1688 (20032004) — Car washes.

## 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=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168899INT)
2. **04/21/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168898AMD)
3. **04/30/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168897AMD)
4. **06/19/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168896AMD)
5. **07/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168895AMD)
6. **07/15/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168894AMD)
7. **09/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168893AMD)
8. **09/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168892AMD)
9. **10/11/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168890CHP)
10. **AB1688** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688)
11. **09/11/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1688&version=20030AB168891ENR)

## Votes

- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1688 goldberg by alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1688 goldberg assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1688 goldberg concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goldberg — primary (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Montanez — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 825, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 42. Noes 34. Page 3790.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 2433.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-15** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Corrected July 15. ) (Corrected July 22. ). `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-14** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (Corrected June 24. ). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-27** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 29. Page 1904.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 6.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **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, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 23). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-21** 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/99bfed2c-6356-48e7-a26c-6515609086d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).