republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-1403.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical care."
description: "Medical care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1403"
citation: "California AB 1403 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medical care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nunez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2004-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44186c80-9294-4ed3-b7c5-42dd51a47325"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1403"
source_hash: "40d5f4cb6a4ee390001b08e50e8c1f862d4df6cbbe37bbb4afbef9a303c6b6e6"
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 1403 (20032004) — Medical care.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1403&version=20030AB140399INT)
2. **08/12/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1403&version=20030AB140398AMD)
3. **08/30/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1403&version=20030AB140396CHP)
4. **AB1403** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1403)
5. **08/17/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1403&version=20030AB140397ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1403 wolk assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1403 nunez by burton steven m. thompson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1403 nunez concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nunez — primary (person)
- Aanestad — coauthor (person)
- Ackerman — principal coauthor (person)
- Aghazarian — coauthor (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Ashburn — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Battin — coauthor (person)
- Benoit — coauthor (person)
- Berg — coauthor (person)
- Bermudez — coauthor (person)
- Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Bowen — coauthor (person)
- Brulte — coauthor (person)
- Burton — principal coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Canciamilla — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Chan — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Chesbro — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Daucher — coauthor (person)
- Denham — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Ducheny — coauthor (person)
- Dunn — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Dutton — coauthor (person)
- Dymally — coauthor (person)
- Escutia — coauthor (person)
- Figueroa — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Florez — coauthor (person)
- Frommer — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Goldberg — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Harman — coauthor (person)
- Haynes — coauthor (person)
- Hollingsworth — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jerome Horton — coauthor (person)
- Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Karnette — coauthor (person)
- Keene — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- La Malfa — coauthor (person)
- La Suer — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- Leslie — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Machado — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Maldonado — coauthor (person)
- Margett — coauthor (person)
- Matthews — coauthor (person)
- Maze — coauthor (person)
- McCarthy — author (person)
- McClintock — coauthor (person)
- McPherson — coauthor (person)
- Montanez — coauthor (person)
- Morrow — coauthor (person)
- Mountjoy — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Murray — coauthor (person)
- Nakanishi — coauthor (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- Nation — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Oller — coauthor (person)
- Oropeza — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Parra — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Perata — coauthor (person)
- Plescia — coauthor (person)
- Poochigian — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Richman — coauthor (person)
- Ridley-Thomas — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Salinas — coauthor (person)
- Samuelian — coauthor (person)
- Scott — coauthor (person)
- Sher — coauthor (person)
- Shirley Horton — coauthor (person)
- Simitian — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Speier — coauthor (person)
- Spitzer — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Torlakson — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Vincent — coauthor (person)
- Wesson — coauthor (person)
- Wiggins — coauthor (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 367, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2004-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7243.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 7243.) (Corrected August 17. ) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5027.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file. (Corrected August 17. ). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 2. Page 1447.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2003-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2003-02-21** 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/44186c80-9294-4ed3-b7c5-42dd51a47325`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).