---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: administration and benefits."
description: "Workers' compensation: administration and benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 486"
citation: "California AB 486 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: administration and benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2001-02-21"
last_action: "2002-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b69f8681-0279-43d3-a8bf-abc2991d0a12"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB486"
source_hash: "a8207c37f5b746b7d75f1edc7a407c665581561c0e94ccab6bfd4204e0bb5283"
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 486 (20012002) — Workers' compensation: administration and benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB486&version=20010AB48699INT)
2. **08/26/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB486&version=20010AB48698AMD)
3. **09/26/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB486&version=20010AB48696CHP)
4. **AB486** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB486)
5. **08/31/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB486&version=20010AB48697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 486 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB486 Calderon By Burton — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 486 Steinberg Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB486 Steinberg By Alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 866, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 50. Noes 29. Page 8727.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-31** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 23. Noes 10. Page 6095.) `committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-3, passage`
- **2002-08-27** Read second time. To third reading. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2002-08-26** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-13** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2002-08-12** Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2001-07-19** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2001-07-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2001-07-12** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2001-07-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 1971.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-05-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 22. Page 1537.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (May 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2001-02-21** 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/b69f8681-0279-43d3-a8bf-abc2991d0a12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).