---
type: "Bill"
title: "Absentee voting."
description: "Absentee voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 188"
citation: "California AB 188 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Absentee voting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maze"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-01-27"
last_action: "2003-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42e7a1e9-5858-42b3-81db-6ba18fca9ef2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188"
source_hash: "97540cbf15a91b41b5cff88a8eb43099ca24f88ab454b8bd2e3eba8aa9f5790e"
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 188 (20032004) — Absentee voting.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/27/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18899INT)
2. **03/06/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18898AMD)
3. **04/29/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18897AMD)
4. **05/20/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18896AMD)
5. **06/30/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18895AMD)
6. **08/20/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18894AMD)
7. **09/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18892CHP)
8. **AB188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188)
9. **08/28/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB188&version=20030AB18893ENR)

## Votes

- do pass as amended, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 188 maze consent calendar second day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent #20 ab188 maze — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent #25 ab188 maze by oller — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 188 maze special consent calendar 2nd day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maze — primary (person)
- Benoit — coauthor (person)
- Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Daucher — coauthor (person)
- Dutton — coauthor (person)
- Harman — coauthor (person)
- Haynes — coauthor (person)
- La Malfa — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Oller — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Plescia — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 347, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2003-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3235.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2003-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2121.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2003-08-18** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2003-07-28** Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2003-07-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-21** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1913.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-14** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2003-07-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Elections and Redistricting. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1883.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-21** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-30** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-29** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 22). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-02-03** Referred to Com. on E.,R. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-28** From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
- **2003-01-27** 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/42e7a1e9-5858-42b3-81db-6ba18fca9ef2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).