---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: death benefits."
description: "Workers' compensation: death benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2008"
citation: "California AB 2008 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: death benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2002-02-15"
last_action: "2002-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fca16a15-4e16-42da-8c49-851a672ad8e6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2008"
source_hash: "f6b0a13d46cfda8eb8da5cf00c1c84859bd3e37780b3d647df57c7ee41baec76"
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 2008 (20012002) — Workers' compensation: death benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2008&version=20010AB200899INT)
2. **03/21/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2008&version=20010AB200898AMD)
3. **08/28/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2008&version=20010AB200896CHP)
4. **AB2008** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2008)
5. **08/12/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2008&version=20010AB200897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2008 Correa Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2008 Correa — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)
- Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Briggs — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Matthews — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)
- Wyman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 296, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-08-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-08-12** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-08-12** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5374.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-27** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-23** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6345.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2002-02-15** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. 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/fca16a15-4e16-42da-8c49-851a672ad8e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).