---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic partners."
description: "Domestic partners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 205"
citation: "California AB 205 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic partners."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goldberg"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-01-28"
last_action: "2003-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b8ee3d2-42fc-46b0-bfdb-9aa1d10b67af"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205"
source_hash: "b5a8c641e2e69b65e4df8f3337343c01befddca0d056e31653bd8c6fffe00986"
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 205 (20032004) — Domestic partners.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/28/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20599INT)
2. **03/24/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20598AMD)
3. **03/25/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20597AMD)
4. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20596AMD)
5. **06/03/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20595AMD)
6. **07/03/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20594AMD)
7. **07/16/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20593AMD)
8. **08/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20592AMD)
9. **08/21/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20591AMD)
10. **09/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20589CHP)
11. **AB205** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205)
12. **09/03/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB205&version=20030AB20590ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 205 goldberg concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab205 goldberg by kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 205 goldberg assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Goldberg — primary (person)
- Berg — coauthor (person)
- Bermudez — coauthor (person)
- Burton — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Chan — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Dymally — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — author (person)
- Koretz — author (person)
- Kuehl — principal coauthor (person)
- Laird — author (person)
- Leno — author (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Montanez — coauthor (person)
- Nation — coauthor (person)
- Nunez — coauthor (person)
- Oropeza — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Simitian — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Wesson — principal coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 421, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 41. Noes 33. Page 3372.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-08-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2206.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-18** From committee chair, with amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations In committee: Testimony taken: Hearing postponed by committee. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-16** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 3.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, 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 Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-02** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Re-referred. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-04** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 32. Page 2230.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To third reading. Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended. Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 28). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-26** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-25** 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`
- **2003-03-24** 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`
- **2003-03-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-02-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-29** From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
- **2003-01-28** 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/9b8ee3d2-42fc-46b0-bfdb-9aa1d10b67af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).