---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment."
description: "Employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 223"
citation: "California AB 223 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-01-29"
last_action: "2003-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/689dea8a-57da-460e-8f59-e3a25fa3863a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB223"
source_hash: "5b22d404c4d2464402eb92715d00b3691b4acd3183ff648ca0d4e2a0c5d0649f"
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 223 (20032004) — Employment.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/29/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB223&version=20030AB22399INT)
2. **07/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB223&version=20030AB22397CHP)
3. **AB223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB223)
4. **07/07/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB223&version=20030AB22398ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab223 diaz by kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 223 diaz assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-07-07** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 14. Page 1665.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 32. Page 905.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-03-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-02-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2003-01-29** 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/689dea8a-57da-460e-8f59-e3a25fa3863a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).