---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: cross-enrollment."
description: "Public postsecondary education: cross-enrollment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1783"
citation: "California AB 1783 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public postsecondary education: cross-enrollment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Higher Education"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-04-10"
last_action: "2003-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e99c7f9e-e18e-4b74-be3a-36ef565d1322"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1783"
source_hash: "3da28dd669f53313fbda2473d9237edffe23eab9d725f8017fe0e2a7fc2b4c26"
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 1783 (20032004) — Public postsecondary education: cross-enrollment.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/10/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1783&version=20030AB178399INT)
2. **08/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1783&version=20030AB178398AMD)
3. **09/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1783&version=20030AB178396CHP)
4. **AB1783** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1783)
5. **09/09/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1783&version=20030AB178397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1783 higher ed. special consent calendar 2nd day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1783 higher ed. assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent cale ab1783 committee on higher ed (liu) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Higher Education — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 457, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3677.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2003-09-04** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2348.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** 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`
- **2003-07-14** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-06-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1838.) `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 24. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-21** Art. IV, Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with and Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1083.) Referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-11** From printer. May be heard in committee May 11.
- **2003-04-10** 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/e99c7f9e-e18e-4b74-be3a-36ef565d1322`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).