---
type: "Bill"
title: "State operations."
description: "State operations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2104"
citation: "California AB 2104 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State operations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-02-18"
last_action: "2004-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e66a900-cb87-459d-8dbc-d89dae3ca07b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104"
source_hash: "326f83458db89781c2414f0788cb70fde000d6417018047139d5a7e83a351ceb"
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 2104 (20032004) — State operations.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210499INT)
2. **05/10/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210498AMD)
3. **05/17/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210497AMD)
4. **07/27/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210496AMD)
5. **08/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210495AMD)
6. **09/23/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210493CHP)
7. **AB2104** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104)
8. **08/25/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2104&version=20030AB210494ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab2104 committee on budget (steinberg) by chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2104 budget concurrence in senate amendments by steinberg — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2104 budget third reading urgency by steinberg — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 702, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2004-08-25** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7721.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 3. Page 7754.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 2. Page 5247.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-27** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-28** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2004-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-27** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6181.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 27. Noes 0.) (May 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Budget. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Budget. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Budget. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2004-02-18** 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/6e66a900-cb87-459d-8dbc-d89dae3ca07b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).