---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: death benefits: police officers."
description: "Workers' compensation: death benefits: police officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1840"
citation: "California AB 1840 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: death benefits: police officers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frommer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-01-22"
last_action: "2004-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5b09c57-09f5-489e-b062-ed7e6b75804b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1840"
source_hash: "0e53daf57cd2f87330134ab3abc074a09390a2f6826bb8a3ef903a202e53d4a9"
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 1840 (20032004) — Workers' compensation: death benefits: police officers.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/22/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1840&version=20030AB184099INT)
2. **03/18/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1840&version=20030AB184098AMD)
3. **07/06/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1840&version=20030AB184096CHP)
4. **AB1840** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1840)
5. **06/17/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1840&version=20030AB184097ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab1840 frommer by scott — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1840 frommer assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frommer — primary (person)
- Richman — coauthor (person)
- Scott — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 92, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-07-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-06-21** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2004-06-17** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-06-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 7. Page 4212.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-14** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-04-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4979.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-03-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2004-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-02-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2004-01-22** 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/b5b09c57-09f5-489e-b062-ed7e6b75804b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).