---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: discrimination."
description: "Employment: discrimination."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2900"
citation: "California AB 2900 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment: discrimination."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0162696c-93f4-4159-8f6c-a814fb9ea3a4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900"
source_hash: "16c5efca6fbd5596d5e369abf43f5b824c9eb33e29bc243d05d7c7a689721d34"
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 2900 (20032004) — Employment: discrimination.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900&version=20030AB290099INT)
2. **04/01/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900&version=20030AB290098AMD)
3. **09/25/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900&version=20030AB290096CHP)
4. **AB2900** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900)
5. **08/16/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900&version=20030AB290097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- be referred to committee on appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab2900 laird by alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2900 laird assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Laird — primary (person)
- Dymally — coauthor (person)
- Goldberg — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Nation — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 788, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-16** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-08-16** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 4949.) `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 7. Noes 4.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `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, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 32. Page 5736.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 5.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-26** From committee: Be re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 26). `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Rules Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment and Standing Committee on Rules From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **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/0162696c-93f4-4159-8f6c-a814fb9ea3a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).