---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: safety membership."
description: "County employees' retirement: safety membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 144"
citation: "California AB 144 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: safety membership."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-01-17"
last_action: "2003-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb248a5d-6034-4dde-875d-37202cb95f4c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB144"
source_hash: "0791898221d3a6ef032c564a32769de1cea031db0a0f526742223aea296374f0"
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 144 (20032004) — County employees' retirement: safety membership.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/17/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB144&version=20030AB14499INT)
2. **06/17/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB144&version=20030AB14498AMD)
3. **08/04/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB144&version=20030AB14496CHP)
4. **AB144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB144)
5. **07/21/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB144&version=20030AB14497ENR)

## Votes

- ab 144 correa consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab144 correa by soto — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 144 correa concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)
- Harman — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Spitzer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 171, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-08-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2003-07-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 3. Page 2848.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 8. Page 1870.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-30** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2003-06-26** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `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 76. Noes 0. Page 1709.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-01-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-21** From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
- **2003-01-17** 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/bb248a5d-6034-4dde-875d-37202cb95f4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).