---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Act: state mandates."
description: "Budget Act: state mandates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2851"
citation: "California AB 2851 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Budget Act: state mandates."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/751903f8-423f-4f17-99ca-65e39bfa94e2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2851"
source_hash: "0ea99d11b1e4461182a347ffb429c6597b0ee69c3d55bbdcf439197a90dcb35d"
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 2851 (20032004) — Budget Act: state mandates.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/25/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2851&version=20030AB285198AMD)
2. **04/29/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2851&version=20030AB285197AMD)
3. **08/25/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2851&version=20030AB285195CHP)
4. **AB2851** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2851)
5. **08/11/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2851&version=20030AB285196ENR)

## Votes

- ab 2851 laird consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab2851 laird by alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Laird — primary (person)
- Chavez — principal coauthor (person)
- Daucher — principal coauthor (person)
- Hancock — principal coauthor (person)
- La Malfa — principal coauthor (person)
- Longville — principal coauthor (person)
- Maze — principal coauthor (person)
- Montanez — principal coauthor (person)
- Salinas — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 316, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2004-08-11** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-08-11** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 1. Page 4893.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5763.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-03** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-26** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-25** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2004-02-20** 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/751903f8-423f-4f17-99ca-65e39bfa94e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).