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Bill	Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments.	Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20032004	AB 944	California AB 944 (20032004)	bill	Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments.	enacted	Steinberg	9	26	5	2003-02-20	2003-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/5eea95fc-af52-4120-998a-2fcce2259b8a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB944	2d7fe272e19a6033ef3b42c99c551ed250f0e0c4afd1b70cf6ffe2397a72dec6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 944 (20032004) — Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/03 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/03 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/03 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/03 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/25/03 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/03 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/03 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB944 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/12/03 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• ab 944 matthews assembly third reading — pass (pass) · lower
• do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• assembly 3rd reading ab944 steinberg by perata — pass (pass) · upper
• senate amendments be concurred in. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Steinberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2003-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 763, Statutes of 2003.
• 2003-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2003-09-23 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2003-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 32. Page 3874.) From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (September 12). Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 41. Noes 33. Page 3899.). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2003-09-11 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 2493.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2003-09-10 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file.
• 2003-09-03 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2003-09-02 From inactive file. To second reading.
• 2003-07-10 To inactive file on motion of Senator Machado.
• 2003-07-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2003-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-06-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2003-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-05-15 Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. referral-committee
• 2003-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2003-05-08 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 22. Page 1539.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2003-05-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-04-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2003-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2003-04-23 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2003-04-08 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. referral-committee
• 2003-04-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Read second time and amended. referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1
• 2003-03-13 Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government and Standing Committee on Agriculture. referral-committee
• 2003-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2003-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5eea95fc-af52-4120-998a-2fcce2259b8a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).