republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-2835.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care professionals: insurance fraud."
description: "Health care professionals: insurance fraud."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2835"
citation: "California AB 2835 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care professionals: insurance fraud."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Plescia"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfc0c676-a23f-42c5-9e47-0a931bf75783"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835"
source_hash: "ad3229fa5c230f11fdef3f0b562470038f516d6b4896e1cb47eae7486a511d8a"
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 2835 (20032004) — Health care professionals: insurance fraud.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835&version=20030AB283599INT)
2. **04/12/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835&version=20030AB283598AMD)
3. **05/06/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835&version=20030AB283597AMD)
4. **06/21/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835&version=20030AB283596AMD)
5. **08/30/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835&version=20030AB283594CHP)
6. **AB2835** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835)
7. **08/12/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2835&version=20030AB283595ENR)

## Votes

- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2835 plescia concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2835 plescia assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- consent calendar 2nd ab2835 plescia — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Plescia — primary (person)
- Alpert — principal coauthor (person)
- Morrow — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 333, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2004-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 7031.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-07-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-07-01** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4540.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-24** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5843.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2004-05-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-05-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations by unanimous consent. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Health and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2004-02-20** 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/cfc0c676-a23f-42c5-9e47-0a931bf75783`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).