---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local public employees' retirement: benefits."
description: "Local public employees' retirement: benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1587"
citation: "California AB 1587 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local public employees' retirement: benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d96a1fc-cbc5-4ab2-b91f-1a0483a52aab"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587"
source_hash: "e6acce8463cf19a05642610b28d225d15e49d65bb35bbfdc2a198add6b70b383"
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 1587 (20032004) — Local public employees' retirement: benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587&version=20030AB158799INT)
2. **08/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587&version=20030AB158798AMD)
3. **09/04/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587&version=20030AB158797AMD)
4. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587&version=20030AB158795CHP)
5. **AB1587** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587)
6. **09/11/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1587&version=20030AB158796ENR)

## Votes

- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1587 p.e., r.& s.s. assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab1587 committee on p.e.r.s.& s.(nagrete by soto — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1587 p.e., r.& s.s. concurrence in senate amendments by negrete mcleod — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 852, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 3789.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2418.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-04** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-03** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-08-25** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-18** From inactive file. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-24** To inactive file on motion of Senator Soto.
- **2003-06-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **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 44. Noes 28. Page 1706.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** (Corrected May 7. )
- **2003-05-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-10** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2003-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2003-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d96a1fc-cbc5-4ab2-b91f-1a0483a52aab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).