---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employee health care benefits: domestic partners."
description: "Public employee health care benefits: domestic partners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1082"
citation: "California AB 1082 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public employee health care benefits: domestic partners."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2003-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5389e486-d771-4422-850a-5a24149f7f00"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1082"
source_hash: "82d28afe9dd8101adbd9bbe019f3a0b43c8a8ad572cff7fadef0fb4a1ef1ded0"
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 1082 (20032004) — Public employee health care benefits: domestic partners.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1082&version=20030AB108299INT)
2. **04/07/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1082&version=20030AB108298AMD)
3. **10/11/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1082&version=20030AB108296CHP)
4. **AB1082** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1082)
5. **08/27/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1082&version=20030AB108297ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab1082 laird by escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1082 laird assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Laird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 764, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-11** Enrolled and to the Governor at 6:15 p.m.
- **2003-08-28** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 2167.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 31. Page 1695.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-08** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2003-02-20** 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/5389e486-d771-4422-850a-5a24149f7f00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).