---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contracts: telemarketing."
description: "Contracts: telemarketing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 88"
citation: "California AB 88 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Contracts: telemarketing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-01-07"
last_action: "2003-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9669955-86dc-4e33-b7e5-2501301311e2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88"
source_hash: "b9dab0be1c103fd5a2005da69a90e4297a48e7f9f2bcbf3f9e2f128e6542c641"
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 88 (20032004) — Contracts: telemarketing.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/07/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88&version=20030AB8899INT)
2. **02/27/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88&version=20030AB8898AMD)
3. **03/13/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88&version=20030AB8897AMD)
4. **07/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88&version=20030AB8895CHP)
5. **AB88** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88)
6. **07/07/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB88&version=20030AB8896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab88 corbett by escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 88 corbett assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — author (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 77, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-07-07** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 8. Page 1659.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-03-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 689.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-03-13** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-03-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-03** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-27** 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`
- **2003-01-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2003-01-07** 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/b9669955-86dc-4e33-b7e5-2501301311e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).