---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: taxicabs and passenger vehicles for hire: violations: impoundment: charter-party carriers of passengers: advertisement as taxicabs."
description: "Vehicles: taxicabs and passenger vehicles for hire: violations: impoundment: charter-party carriers of passengers: advertisement as taxicabs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 299"
citation: "California AB 299 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: taxicabs and passenger vehicles for hire: violations: impoundment: charter-party carriers of passengers: advertisement as taxicabs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-06"
last_action: "2003-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1df8a760-9a2c-402f-870d-4e1590f2f57e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB299"
source_hash: "995d5e2afa81b080e8036ec60a7cce5c42ee7a3c46953c0cff8748cdccd56c39"
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 299 (20032004) — Vehicles: taxicabs and passenger vehicles for hire: violations: impoundment: charter-party carriers of passengers: advertisement as taxicabs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB299&version=20030AB29999INT)
2. **06/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB299&version=20030AB29998AMD)
3. **10/03/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB299&version=20030AB29996CHP)
4. **AB299** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB299)
5. **09/03/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB299&version=20030AB29997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 299 lowenthal concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 299 lowenthal assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab299 lowenthal by murray — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lowenthal — primary (person)
- Koretz — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 658, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-15** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 70. Noes 7. Page 3351.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2161.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2003-07-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-25** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-17** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-21** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 1100.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-02-20** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2003-02-06** 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/1df8a760-9a2c-402f-870d-4e1590f2f57e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).