---
type: "Bill"
title: "Court fees."
description: "Court fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1759"
citation: "California AB 1759 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Court fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-03-11"
last_action: "2003-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/564d5e12-ce3d-4ee5-83b7-6e698ea73e90"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759"
source_hash: "381efe22c05521d06f3899df78577ac2f5d8ef854535a6304c0fbaa787ced39e"
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 1759 (20032004) — Court fees.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/11/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759&version=20030AB175999INT)
2. **06/25/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759&version=20030AB175998AMD)
3. **07/27/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759&version=20030AB175997AMD)
4. **08/02/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759&version=20030AB175995CHP)
5. **AB1759** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759)
6. **07/29/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1759&version=20030AB175996ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab1759 committee on budget (oropeza) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1759 budget concurrence- urgency added by oropeza — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1759 budget assembly third reading by oropeza — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 159, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-08-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-08-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-07-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2919.) Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 55. Noes 22. Page 2953.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-27** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 1990.) `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2003-06-25** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-17** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2003-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 0. Page 2151.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 10.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-20** Referred to Standing Committee on Budget. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-12** From printer. May be heard in committee April 11.
- **2003-03-11** 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/564d5e12-ce3d-4ee5-83b7-6e698ea73e90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).