---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: port police officers."
description: "Peace officers: port police officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 354"
citation: "California AB 354 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers: port police officers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-11"
last_action: "2003-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a3dc90c-5d82-4235-b94a-996eb2e41e04"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354"
source_hash: "e9277d486bd90d194685a4199f8e8f69bfe4a76054974fda93725834b21b98c3"
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 354 (20032004) — Peace officers: port police officers.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354&version=20030AB35499INT)
2. **04/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354&version=20030AB35498AMD)
3. **06/17/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354&version=20030AB35497AMD)
4. **07/14/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354&version=20030AB35495CHP)
5. **AB354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354)
6. **06/30/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB354&version=20030AB35496ENR)

## Votes

- ab 354 lowenthal concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 354 lowenthal consent calendar second day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent #16 ab354 lowenthal by karnette — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowenthal — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 47, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2003-06-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 2565.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-06-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-06-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1455.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-17** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `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 80. Noes 0. Page 1103.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-09** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-03** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-02-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2003-02-11** 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/4a3dc90c-5d82-4235-b94a-996eb2e41e04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).