---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance company regulation: disability insurance fraud."
description: "Insurance company regulation: disability insurance fraud."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1728"
citation: "California AB 1728 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance company regulation: disability insurance fraud."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-03-04"
last_action: "2004-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa449530-fe9c-466e-bc4a-569f754b3b5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728"
source_hash: "bfedc7c59c2374219ca26410af0e1333d0e48a1688a6e92603ab954566ac6341"
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 1728 (20032004) — Insurance company regulation: disability insurance fraud.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **03/04/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172899INT)
2. **04/07/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172898AMD)
3. **04/15/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172897AMD)
4. **05/03/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172896AMD)
5. **06/09/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172895AMD)
6. **06/17/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172894AMD)
7. **09/20/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172892CHP)
8. **AB1728** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728)
9. **08/18/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1728&version=20030AB172893ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1728 ins. consent calendar second day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent cale ab1728 committee on insurance (vargas) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1728 ins. concurrence in senate amendments by vargas — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 599, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2004-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 7285.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-07-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-07-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4622.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-17** 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`
- **2004-06-09** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-08** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2331.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-04-08** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-05** From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
- **2003-03-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa449530-fe9c-466e-bc4a-569f754b3b5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).