---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gambling establishments."
description: "Gambling establishments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1780"
citation: "California AB 1780 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gambling establishments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Governmental Organization"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-03-26"
last_action: "2004-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87a1759e-9e63-49a0-8b13-8895c8b9f8f5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1780"
source_hash: "f10fc86b3903cbfb4144bdce2e5f70196f6d7f6285f356cf86dfd1ed69789531"
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 1780 (20032004) — Gambling establishments.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/26/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1780&version=20030AB178099INT)
2. **06/17/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1780&version=20030AB178098AMD)
3. **08/23/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1780&version=20030AB178096CHP)
4. **AB1780** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1780)
5. **08/12/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1780&version=20030AB178097ENR)

## Votes

- consent calendar 2nd ab1780 committee on gov. org. (horton) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1780 g.o. assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1780 g.o. concurrence in senate amendments by horton,j — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Governmental Organization — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 276, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2004-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 7013.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-06-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-06-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4420.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-23** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `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 Governmental Organization. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1557.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-01** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2003-04-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 25. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-27** From printer. May be heard in committee April 26.
- **2003-03-26** 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/87a1759e-9e63-49a0-8b13-8895c8b9f8f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).