---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment discrimination."
description: "Employment discrimination."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 76"
citation: "California AB 76 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment discrimination."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2002-12-23"
last_action: "2003-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df2d3af2-4852-433e-938e-265031cb90d9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76"
source_hash: "6515da7caa27ca92cd2418612613d8c1fe9b4b186a2564139f7c5b34fa8070d7"
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 76 (20032004) — Employment discrimination.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/23/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7699INT)
2. **02/26/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7698AMD)
3. **02/27/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7697AMD)
4. **03/11/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7696AMD)
5. **06/19/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7695AMD)
6. **06/26/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7694AMD)
7. **08/28/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7693AMD)
8. **10/03/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7691CHP)
9. **AB76** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76)
10. **09/05/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB76&version=20030AB7692ENR)

## Votes

- ab 76 corbett concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended and be re-referred to the committee on labor and employment. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab76 corbett by kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 76 corbett assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended, and re-refer to the committee on labor and industrial relations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
- Koretz — principal coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — principal coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — principal coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 671, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-15** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 3444.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-09-02** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 2276.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-28** 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`
- **2003-07-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-26** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-25** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (Ayes 5. Noes 1.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 1238.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 6.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 19). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-11** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-03-10** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (March 4). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-03** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary (Corrected February 27. ). `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary 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`
- **2003-02-26** 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`
- **2003-01-30** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-06** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2003-01-02** From printer. May be heard in committee February 1.
- **2002-12-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df2d3af2-4852-433e-938e-265031cb90d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).