---
type: "Bill"
title: "Classified school employees."
description: "Classified school employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2849"
citation: "California AB 2849 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Classified school employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Washington"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-25"
last_action: "2002-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b5bd8f2-1d33-4616-8ea0-64da965efd07"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849"
source_hash: "f6016873199eac8e9782c951252ee6a2777122ebe64579652937ab6cbbe4b595"
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 2849 (20012002) — Classified school employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849&version=20010AB284999INT)
2. **08/08/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849&version=20010AB284998AMD)
3. **08/26/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849&version=20010AB284997AMD)
4. **08/29/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849&version=20010AB284996AMD)
5. **09/29/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849&version=20010AB284994CHP)
6. **AB2849** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849)
7. **08/30/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2849&version=20010AB284995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2849 Washington By Perata — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2849 Washington Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2849 Washington Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Washington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1100, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-17** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2002-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 48. Noes 29. Page 8653.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 6016.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-29** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-08-28** Joint Rule 61(b)(15) suspended.
- **2002-08-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-26** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-19** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2002-08-08** Read third time. Amended. To inactive file on motion of Senator Perata. `reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-04-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 25. Page 5719.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-04-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-04-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2002-02-25** Joint Rule 54 (a) suspended. 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/3b5bd8f2-1d33-4616-8ea0-64da965efd07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).