---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Act of 2002: contingencies and emergencies."
description: "Budget Act of 2002: contingencies and emergencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1761"
citation: "California AB 1761 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Budget Act of 2002: contingencies and emergencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-03-11"
last_action: "2003-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/420fc59f-ea15-4840-81d7-e6db52407f7e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761"
source_hash: "5fbe1a0f0aee1429245dcfd0e81027d3a3438ff1e22d266ffd56dc471ace671f"
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 1761 (20032004) — Budget Act of 2002: contingencies and emergencies.

## 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=200320040AB1761&version=20030AB176199INT)
2. **06/26/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761&version=20030AB176198AMD)
3. **06/27/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761&version=20030AB176197AMD)
4. **06/30/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761&version=20030AB176196AMD)
5. **08/02/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761&version=20030AB176194CHP)
6. **AB1761** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761)
7. **07/29/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1761&version=20030AB176195ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab1761 committee on budget (oropeza) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1761 budget concurrence- urgency added by oropeza — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1761 budget assembly third reading by oropeza — **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 160, 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.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 2954.) `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, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 1991.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-30** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-27** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-26** 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 2152.) `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/420fc59f-ea15-4840-81d7-e6db52407f7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).