California 2003-2004 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 534 — Immigration consultants: client protection.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 384, Statutes of 2003.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2003. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 80% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

How often bills like it became law.

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 13 sponsors

    1 primary, 12 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 7 recorded votes so far.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 384, Statutes of 2003.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3373.)

  5. From Special Consent Calendar. To unfinished business file.

  6. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2208.)

  7. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.

  8. Read second time. To third reading.

  9. Read third time, amended. To second reading.

  10. Read second time. To third reading.

  11. From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  12. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations.

  13. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.).

  14. Joint Rule 61(a)(9) suspended. (Page 1731.)

  15. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.).

  16. Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection and Standing Committee on Judiciary.

  17. In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment.

  18. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1774.)

  19. From Consent Calendar. To third reading.

  20. Read second time. To Consent Calendar.

  21. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 7).

  22. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations.

  23. Read second time and amended.

  24. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22).

  25. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary.

  26. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended.

  27. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  28. Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary.

  29. From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  30. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Chavez · Cosponsor
  • Diaz · Cosponsor
  • Dutra · Cosponsor
  • Frommer · Cosponsor
  • Laird · Cosponsor
  • Lieber · Cosponsor
  • Maze · Cosponsor
  • Nunez · Cosponsor
  • Soto · Cosponsor
  • Corbett · Cosponsor
  • Correa · Cosponsor
  • Hancock · Cosponsor
  • Vargas · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 12 co-sponsors · 109 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Vargas

Co-sponsors (12)

  • Chavez
  • Diaz
  • Dutra
  • Frommer
  • Laird
  • Lieber
  • Maze
  • Nunez
  • Soto
  • Corbett
  • Correa
  • Hancock

Not signed on (109)

109 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

ab 534 vargas concurrence in senate amendments

Passed 82 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 76003
Democratic 5000
Republican 1000
Total 82003
% of votes cast 96%0%0%4%
How each member voted (85)
Member Party Vote
Hancock — Yea
Aghazarian — Yea
Cogdill — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Berg — Yea
Bermudez — Yea
Bogh — Yea
Campbell — Yea
Canciamilla — Yea
Chan — Yea
Chavez — Yea
Harman — Yea
Cohn — Yea
Leno — Yea
Levine — Yea
Daucher — Yea
Diaz — Yea
Dutra — Yea
Liu — Yea
Dymally — Yea
Frommer — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Goldberg — Yea
Jerome — Yea
Horton — Yea
Shirley — Yea
Horton — Yea
Houston — Yea
Keene — Yea
Koretz — Yea
La — Yea
La — Yea
Suer — Yea
Leslie — Yea
Lieber — Yea
Longville — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Maddox — Yea
Matthews — Yea
Maze — Yea
McCarthy — Yea
Montanez — Yea
Mountjoy — Yea
Nakanishi — Yea
Nakano — Yea
Nation — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Nunez — Yea
Benoit — Yea
Dutton — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Parra — Yea
Plescia — Yea
Richman — Yea
Runner — Yea
Salinas — Yea
Samuelian — Yea
Spitzer — Yea
Wesson — Yea
Firebaugh — Not Voting
Haynes — Not Voting
Oropeza — Not Voting
Wyland — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Vargas — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Bates — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Maldonado — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Chu — Yea
Correa — Yea
Cox — Yea
Yee — Yea
La Malfa — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Pacheco, Blanca Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

Official roll call →

special consent #27 ab534 vargas by romero

Passed 38 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 38000
Total 38000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (38)
Member Party Vote
Cedillo — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Ackerman — Yea
Alarcon — Yea
Alpert — Yea
Denham — Yea
Battin — Yea
Bowen — Yea
Brulte — Yea
Burton — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Escutia — Yea
Figueroa — Yea
Karnette — Yea
Kuehl — Yea
Machado — Yea
Margett — Yea
McClintock — Yea
McPherson — Yea
Morrow — Yea
Murray — Yea
Oller — Yea
Ortiz — Yea
Perata — Yea
Poochigian — Yea
Scott — Yea
Sher — Yea
Soto — Yea
Speier — Yea
Vasconcellos — Yea
Romero — Yea
Aanestad — Yea
Ashburn — Yea
Hollingsworth — Yea
Knight — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Florez — Yea
Dunn — Yea

Official roll call →

ab 534 vargas assembly third reading

Passed 82 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 76001
Democratic 5002
Republican 1000
Total 82003
% of votes cast 96%0%0%4%
How each member voted (85)
Member Party Vote
Hancock — Yea
Aghazarian — Yea
Chu — Yea
Cogdill — Yea
Berg — Yea
Bermudez — Yea
Bogh — Yea
Campbell — Yea
Canciamilla — Yea
Chan — Yea
Chavez — Yea
Harman — Yea
Cohn — Yea
Leno — Yea
Levine — Yea
Daucher — Yea
Diaz — Yea
Dutra — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Dymally — Yea
Firebaugh — Yea
Frommer — Yea
Goldberg — Yea
Jerome — Yea
Horton — Yea
Shirley — Yea
Horton — Yea
Houston — Yea
Keene — Yea
Koretz — Yea
La — Yea
Malfa — Yea
La — Yea
Suer — Yea
Leslie — Yea
Lieber — Yea
Longville — Yea
Maddox — Yea
Matthews — Yea
Maze — Yea
McCarthy — Yea
Montanez — Yea
Mountjoy — Yea
Nakanishi — Yea
Nakano — Yea
Nation — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Nunez — Yea
Parra — Yea
Plescia — Yea
Richman — Yea
Runner — Yea
Salinas — Yea
Samuelian — Yea
Cox — Yea
Dutton — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Oropeza — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Spitzer — Yea
Wesson — Yea
Haynes — Not Voting
Wyland — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Vargas — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Bates — Yea
Benoit — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Liu — Yea
Maldonado — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Correa — Yea
Yee — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea
Pacheco, Blanca Democratic Not Voting
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

Official roll call →

do pass, to consent calendar.

Passed 25 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 23000
Democratic 2000
Total 25000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (25)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Berg — Yea
Daucher — Yea
Diaz — Yea
Firebaugh — Yea
Goldberg — Yea
Haynes — Yea
Nation — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Nunez — Yea
Runner — Yea
Samuelian — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Bates — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Leno — Yea
Maldonado — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Correa — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Pacheco, Blanca Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Passed 14 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11000
Democratic 3000
Total 14000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (14)
Member Party Vote
Corbett — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Harman — Yea
Dutra — Yea
Lieber — Yea
Longville — Yea
Montanez — Yea
Nunez — Yea
Bates — Yea
Spitzer — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Pacheco, Blanca Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors AB 534?
AB 534 is sponsored by Chavez, Diaz, Dutra, Frommer, Laird, Lieber, Maze, Nunez, Soto, Corbett, Correa, Hancock, and Vargas.
What is the current status of AB 534?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2003. Enacted.
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