---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing: downpayment assistance and guaranty insurance."
description: "Housing: downpayment assistance and guaranty insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 304"
citation: "California AB 304 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Housing: downpayment assistance and guaranty insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mullin"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-02-06"
last_action: "2003-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f723d122-c9d4-4197-8d51-3287c4aa07d9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304"
source_hash: "d55794251201bce6e1057015336741b7f4f074c0c91c172b6e9c03c493d2462e"
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 304 (20032004) — Housing: downpayment assistance and guaranty insurance.

## 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=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30499INT)
2. **04/22/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30498AMD)
3. **06/24/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30497AMD)
4. **07/21/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30496AMD)
5. **08/27/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30495AMD)
6. **09/04/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30494AMD)
7. **09/29/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30492CHP)
8. **AB304** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304)
9. **09/10/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB304&version=20030AB30493ENR)

## Votes

- ab 304 mullin concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab304 mullin by ducheny — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 304 mullin assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mullin — primary (person)
- Torlakson — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 553, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 30. Page 3717.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 48. Noes 30. Page 3732.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 2421.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-09-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-27** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-24** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 2.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 27. Page 1535.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 9). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-02-14** Referred to Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `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/f723d122-c9d4-4197-8d51-3287c4aa07d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).