---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prostate cancer: treatment services."
description: "Prostate cancer: treatment services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 429"
citation: "California AB 429 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Prostate cancer: treatment services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dymally"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-14"
last_action: "2003-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7e9c260-635d-4c21-9eb5-6357ba9247ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB429"
source_hash: "ca985bcddaeb0ea12a18c5ff4f1a6a27794b5c051cb5c26ce3b8f3d62d1648f0"
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 429 (20032004) — Prostate cancer: treatment services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB429&version=20030AB42999INT)
2. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB429&version=20030AB42998AMD)
3. **08/01/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB429&version=20030AB42996CHP)
4. **AB429** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB429)
5. **07/17/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB429&version=20030AB42997ENR)

## Votes

- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 429 dymally assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- assembly 3rd reading ab429 dymally by ortiz — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dymally — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-21** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2003-07-17** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 1872.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-19** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 15. Page 2219.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 22. Noes 1.) (May 28). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 5.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-02-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2003-02-14** 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/a7e9c260-635d-4c21-9eb5-6357ba9247ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).