---
type: "Bill"
title: "World War II internees: high school diplomas."
description: "World War II internees: high school diplomas."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 781"
citation: "California AB 781 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["World War II internees: high school diplomas."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lieber"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cecbc9a5-0391-44a8-a6bc-80d848d25025"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB781"
source_hash: "014049e4874231e7d1c9fbe596fa6761dea8db6f0988e9b4ed364cde566158ff"
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 781 (20032004) — World War II internees: high school diplomas.

## 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=200320040AB781&version=20030AB78199INT)
2. **06/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB781&version=20030AB78198AMD)
3. **07/07/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB781&version=20030AB78197AMD)
4. **07/28/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB781&version=20030AB78195CHP)
5. **AB781** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB781)
6. **07/14/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB781&version=20030AB78196ENR)

## Votes

- committee amendments. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 781 lieber concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 781 lieber assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- consent calendar 2nd ab781 lieber — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lieber — primary (person)
- Chan — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Dymally — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Maze — coauthor (person)
- Montanez — coauthor (person)
- Nakanishi — coauthor (person)
- Nakano — principal coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 130, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2003-07-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2768.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1739.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-07** Read second time, amended, and to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** Action rescinded and record expunged whereby the bill was read third time and whereby a final roll call vote was taken. (Page 1774.) Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1776.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on 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/cecbc9a5-0391-44a8-a6bc-80d848d25025`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).