republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-254.md

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Bill	Health care coverage.	Health care coverage.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20032004	AB 254	California AB 254 (20032004)	bill	Health care coverage.	enacted	Montanez	6	20	5	2003-02-04	2004-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/c44682c6-55df-451b-9506-73f65310d01b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB254	18a63f902c91bd2fc2c88542d75e3d0599ac4cfd62856ebaca9473354752602d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 254 (20032004) — Health care coverage.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/03 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/04 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/24/04 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/03 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. AB254 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/17/04 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• ab 254 montanez assembly third reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• ab 254 montanez concurrence in senate amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• special consent cale ab254 montanez by kuehl — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Montanez — primary (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Diaz — coauthor (person)
• Dymally — coauthor (person)
• Florez — coauthor (person)
• Kuehl — coauthor (person)
• Lieber — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Margett — coauthor (person)
• Romero — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2004-06-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2004.
• 2004-06-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2004-06-21 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
• 2004-06-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6424.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2004-06-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2004-06-14 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4104.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-06-07 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2004-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-01-28 Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. referral-committee
• 2004-01-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2004-01-20 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4296.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-01-15 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-01-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 23. Noes 0.) (January 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2003-09-04 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. referral-committee
• 2003-09-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-04-22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2003-02-11 Referred to Standing Committee on Health. referral-committee
• 2003-02-05 From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
• 2003-02-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c44682c6-55df-451b-9506-73f65310d01b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).