---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil rights: interference."
description: "Civil rights: interference."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1920"
citation: "California AB 1920 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil rights: interference."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["La Malfa"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-02-10"
last_action: "2004-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/666c526d-84fc-4652-8ed1-efd22fc3dc89"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920"
source_hash: "17d6da68fecfc1d19551ba34625db24da60212b363b398aec2e2425e90f235e9"
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 1920 (20032004) — Civil rights: interference.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920&version=20030AB192099INT)
2. **03/18/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920&version=20030AB192098AMD)
3. **04/01/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920&version=20030AB192097AMD)
4. **07/06/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920&version=20030AB192095CHP)
5. **AB1920** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920)
6. **06/14/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1920&version=20030AB192096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent cale ab1920 la malfa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1920 la malfa assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- La Malfa — primary (person)
- Aghazarian — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Benoit — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Daucher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Haynes — coauthor (person)
- Jerome Horton — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- La Suer — coauthor (person)
- Maze — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Samuelian — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 115, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-06-21** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2004-06-14** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-06-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4105.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-04-12** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5051.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-01** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-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.) (March 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2004-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-02-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2004-02-10** 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/666c526d-84fc-4652-8ed1-efd22fc3dc89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).