---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees."
description: "Public employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1875"
citation: "California AB 1875 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maldonado"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-03"
last_action: "2004-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1880196c-b000-431c-a0b6-48d519a8724d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875"
source_hash: "a55d60fc906147d12a03787213474ed8a34546c0c730545fdfedf00bd5d171af"
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 1875 (20032004) — Public employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875&version=20030AB187599INT)
2. **03/22/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875&version=20030AB187598AMD)
3. **08/19/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875&version=20030AB187597AMD)
4. **09/21/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875&version=20030AB187595CHP)
5. **AB1875** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875)
6. **08/25/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1875&version=20030AB187596ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 2nd reading ab1875 maldonado by mcpherson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1875 maldonado concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1875 maldonado assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maldonado — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 654, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 7666.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-23** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 5229.) `passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-19** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-05** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 5. Page 5969.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-03-22** 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`
- **2004-02-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2004-02-03** 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/1880196c-b000-431c-a0b6-48d519a8724d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).