---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sex offenders."
description: "Sex offenders."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 488"
citation: "California AB 488 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Sex offenders."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parra"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 32
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2003-02-14"
last_action: "2004-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88618ac4-ec38-4b68-9abe-055ca29f044f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488"
source_hash: "cef7882a7dd277385ce1374b81e58f958346e6849197f5e2a0eedbf73ac328ce"
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 488 (20032004) — Sex offenders.

## 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=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48899INT)
2. **01/26/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48895AMD)
3. **03/26/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48898AMD)
4. **04/07/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48897AMD)
5. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48896AMD)
6. **06/14/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48894AMD)
7. **06/30/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48893AMD)
8. **07/19/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48892AMD)
9. **09/24/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48890CHP)
10. **AB488** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488)
11. **08/24/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB488&version=20030AB48891ENR)

## Votes

- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab488 parra by mcpherson lay on table — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab488 parra by mcpherson lay on table — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab488 parra by mcpherson lay on table — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab488 parra by mcpherson lay on table — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 488 parra concurrence- urgency added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab488 parra by mcpherson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 488 parra assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Parra — primary (person)
- Bermudez — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Canciamilla — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Jerome Horton — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Margett — coauthor (person)
- Matthews — coauthor (person)
- Montanez — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- Nunez — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — principal coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Ridley-Thomas — coauthor (person)
- Salinas — coauthor (person)
- Spitzer — author (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Wesson — coauthor (person)
- Wiggins — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 745, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-31** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-24** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 7543.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 5107.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-08-04** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2004-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-07-19** 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`
- **2004-06-30** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-29** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-02-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-01-26** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Corrected January 27. ) Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 4375.) `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2004-01-12** From inactive file. To third reading.
- **2004-01-08** Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Parra.
- **2003-06-05** To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Parra.
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To third reading. Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 23. 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`
- **2003-04-08** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-03** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 1). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-26** 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.
- **2003-02-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `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/88618ac4-ec38-4b68-9abe-055ca29f044f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).