republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-2897.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prisoners: medical testing."
description: "Prisoners: medical testing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2897"
citation: "California AB 2897 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Prisoners: medical testing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bogh"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f8433a1-4b2e-4127-a506-f9db7615b9b5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897"
source_hash: "e2399aff0c07070e712418872a4997c5bfdf151637fea296e175b80436da33fc"
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 2897 (20032004) — Prisoners: medical testing.

## 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=200320040AB2897&version=20030AB289799INT)
2. **04/28/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897&version=20030AB289798AMD)
3. **06/17/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897&version=20030AB289797AMD)
4. **07/06/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897&version=20030AB289796AMD)
5. **09/30/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897&version=20030AB289794CHP)
6. **AB2897** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897)
7. **08/16/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2897&version=20030AB289795ENR)

## Votes

- special consent cale ab2897 bogh — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2897 bogh consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2897 bogh concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Health and Human Services. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bogh — primary (person)
- Margett — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 953, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.
- **2004-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 7123.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-07-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4729.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-07-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-07-06** 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`
- **2004-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on H. & H.S. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety and H. & H.S. `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. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5866.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-28** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-27** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 20). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `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/7f8433a1-4b2e-4127-a506-f9db7615b9b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).