republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-1551.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Employment: biotechnology employment and development.	Employment: biotechnology employment and development.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20032004	AB 1551	California AB 1551 (20032004)	bill	Employment: biotechnology employment and development.	enacted	Kehoe	7	23	8	2003-02-21	2003-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d19ddb32-1cc8-4d51-94f6-55d7a28a5942	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1551	828367e56fab3798e7ca2dc403f2c69c00578e675de3e87c9b27837c939e1c84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1551 (20032004) — Employment: biotechnology employment and development.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/03 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/03 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/03 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/03 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/03 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1551 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/03 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• ab 1551 kehoe assembly third reading — pass (pass) · lower
• ab 1551 kehoe concurrence in senate amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• assembly 3rd reading ab1551 kehoe by morrow — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• placed on appropriations suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kehoe — primary (person)
• Alpert — coauthor (person)
• Ducheny — coauthor (person)
• Plescia — coauthor (person)
• Scott — coauthor (person)
• Shirley Horton — coauthor (person)
• Vargas — coauthor (person)
• Wyland — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2003-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 628, Statutes of 2003.
• 2003-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2003-09-24 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2003-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 3788.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2003-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2003-09-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 2418.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2003-09-02 Read second time, amended, and to third reading. reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2003-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2003-08-18 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2003-07-10 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2003-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-06-19 Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. referral-committee
• 2003-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2003-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 24. Page 2084.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2003-05-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 4.) (May 28). Read second time. To third reading. committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2003-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. referral-committee
• 2003-05-01 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2003-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2003-04-29 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage
• 2003-04-10 Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. 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; origin ocd-bill/d19ddb32-1cc8-4d51-94f6-55d7a28a5942. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).