republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-2900.md

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Bill	Employment: discrimination.	Employment: discrimination.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20032004	AB 2900	California AB 2900 (20032004)	bill	Employment: discrimination.	enacted	Laird	5	20	7	2004-02-20	2004-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/0162696c-93f4-4159-8f6c-a814fb9ea3a4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2900	16c5efca6fbd5596d5e369abf43f5b824c9eb33e29bc243d05d7c7a689721d34	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2900 (20032004) — Employment: discrimination.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/04 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/04 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/25/04 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2900 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/04 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Rules. — pass (pass) · lower
• be referred to committee on appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• assembly 3rd reading ab2900 laird by alarcon — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• ab 2900 laird assembly third reading — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Laird — primary (person)
• Dymally — coauthor (person)
• Goldberg — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Kehoe — coauthor (person)
• Kuehl — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Lieber — coauthor (person)
• Longville — coauthor (person)
• Nation — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2004-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 788, Statutes of 2004.
• 2004-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2004-08-26 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2004-08-16 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2004-08-16 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 4949.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-08-09 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-08-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2004-07-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2004-06-23 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2004-05-27 Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2004-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2004-05-17 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 32. Page 5736.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2004-05-10 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2004-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 5.) (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2004-04-26 From committee: Be re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 26). referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2004-04-22 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Rules Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2004-04-12 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. referral-committee
• 2004-04-01 Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment and Standing Committee on Rules From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment Read second time and amended. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 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; origin ocd-bill/0162696c-93f4-4159-8f6c-a814fb9ea3a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).