---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighters: employment by cities and counties."
description: "Firefighters: employment by cities and counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1929"
citation: "California AB 1929 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firefighters: employment by cities and counties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samuelian"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-10"
last_action: "2004-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d945804-ec3a-44f5-bae7-74db8db84910"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929"
source_hash: "e358ffa2f14219b3db3b686c44f2e9612f2052af26ec082654dbc32c15859737"
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 1929 (20032004) — Firefighters: employment by cities and counties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929&version=20030AB192999INT)
2. **04/12/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929&version=20030AB192998AMD)
3. **06/03/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929&version=20030AB192997AMD)
4. **07/09/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929&version=20030AB192995CHP)
5. **AB1929** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929)
6. **06/28/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1929&version=20030AB192996ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1929 samuelian concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1929 samuelian consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent cale ab1929 samuelian — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Samuelian — primary (person)
- Wiggins — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 126, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-07-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-07-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2004-06-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6586.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-06-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4363.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-21** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-06-03** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-02** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5282.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-16** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 24). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-02-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2004-02-10** 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/5d945804-ec3a-44f5-bae7-74db8db84910`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).