---
type: "Bill"
title: "Privacy: social security numbers."
description: "Privacy: social security numbers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 763"
citation: "California AB 763 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy: social security numbers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liu"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80273e2e-7e3a-4ba4-8780-c0c542731c15"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763"
source_hash: "b64eee517be24a9010a1b512358a487a60b15307f7e04268f9aba88baf3fa818"
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 763 (20032004) — Privacy: social security numbers.

## 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=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76399INT)
2. **04/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76398AMD)
3. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76397AMD)
4. **07/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76396AMD)
5. **09/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76395AMD)
6. **09/25/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76393CHP)
7. **AB763** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763)
8. **09/12/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB763&version=20030AB76394ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent #20 ab763 liu — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent cale ab763 liu by bowen — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 763 liu assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Liu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 532, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2003-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3884.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2478.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. Ordered returned to third reading. `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2003-09-03** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2003-09-02** Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2003-07-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-21** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1911.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-03** 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`
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 2133.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-04-03** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** 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`
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `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/80273e2e-7e3a-4ba4-8780-c0c542731c15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).