---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial transactions."
description: "Financial transactions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1979"
citation: "California AB 1979 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Financial transactions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2004-02-12"
last_action: "2004-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce738c73-1ba1-40c4-8f98-69f4dd05153f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1979"
source_hash: "b9d9b21acf33c1b33b48ac4fce824d70ab32390f657fe3aeddff8f8c046b8dc8"
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 1979 (20032004) — Financial transactions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1979&version=20030AB197999INT)
2. **06/10/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1979&version=20030AB197998AMD)
3. **09/30/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1979&version=20030AB197996CHP)
4. **AB1979** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1979)
5. **08/24/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1979&version=20030AB197997ENR)

## Votes

- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1979 wiggins consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1979 wiggins concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent cale ab1979 wiggins — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 939, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 7531.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5062.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2004-06-24** To inactive file on motion of Senator Florez.
- **2004-06-21** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., C. & I. T. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-13** Referred to Com. on B., C. & I. T. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-04-16** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5178.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-12** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (March 31). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-02-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Banking and Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2004-02-12** 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/ce738c73-1ba1-40c4-8f98-69f4dd05153f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).