---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: faculty."
description: "Community colleges: faculty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 654"
citation: "California AB 654 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: faculty."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goldberg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a1148ab-4938-4161-a625-ac90f802ce30"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB654"
source_hash: "cbae03c145281588fe48b8102730ae50a0578fbc70ae16d08422d2e91c216100"
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 654 (20032004) — Community colleges: faculty.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB654&version=20030AB65499INT)
2. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB654&version=20030AB65496CHP)
3. **AB654** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB654)
4. **08/25/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB654&version=20030AB65497ENR)

## Votes

- ab 654 goldberg assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab654 goldberg by alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goldberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 882, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
- **2003-08-25** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 2122.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 1303.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Higher Education Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-02-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2003-02-19** 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/9a1148ab-4938-4161-a625-ac90f802ce30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).