---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public officers."
description: "Public officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1786"
citation: "California AB 1786 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public officers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cogdill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-01-05"
last_action: "2004-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1ee281f-b7a1-42a6-a049-f54c7afe5027"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1786"
source_hash: "e86b9cd6255fd466c9015d3932fb981c228ffcb74908b293d799709555113a08"
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 1786 (20032004) — Public officers.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/05/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1786&version=20030AB178699INT)
2. **02/12/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1786&version=20030AB178698AMD)
3. **04/13/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1786&version=20030AB178696CHP)
4. **AB1786** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1786)
5. **03/30/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1786&version=20030AB178697ENR)

## Votes

- special consent cale ab1786 cogdill — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1786 cogdill third reading urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cogdill — primary (person)
- Oller — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-04-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 31, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-04-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-04-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2004-03-30** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-03-30** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3172.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-03-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-02-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-02-17** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4563.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-02-13** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-02-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-02-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2004-01-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-06** From printer. May be heard in committee February 5.
- **2004-01-05** 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/d1ee281f-b7a1-42a6-a049-f54c7afe5027`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).