---
type: "Bill"
title: "Immigration consultants: client protection."
description: "Immigration consultants: client protection."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 534"
citation: "California AB 534 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Immigration consultants: client protection."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vargas"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-02-18"
last_action: "2003-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/338c61ed-f31e-46c1-9807-fc0debe3bea8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534"
source_hash: "d2456aec3ce7bfea453184e371420e289bee16ef7d91013af9f140143d62c413"
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 534 (20032004) — Immigration consultants: client protection.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53499INT)
2. **04/10/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53498AMD)
3. **04/29/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53497AMD)
4. **07/22/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53496AMD)
5. **08/25/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53495AMD)
6. **09/17/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53493CHP)
7. **AB534** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534)
8. **09/03/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB534&version=20030AB53494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 534 vargas 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, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent #27 ab534 vargas by romero — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 534 vargas assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vargas — primary (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Correa — principal coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Maze — coauthor (person)
- Nunez — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 384, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3373.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-02** From Special Consent Calendar. To unfinished business file.
- **2003-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2003-08-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2208.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-25** 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: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2003-07-22** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-10** Joint Rule 61(a)(9) suspended. (Page 1731.)
- **2003-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1774.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2003-05-12** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-30** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-29** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-28** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-02-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2003-02-18** 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/338c61ed-f31e-46c1-9807-fc0debe3bea8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).