---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment insurance: WARN Act."
description: "Unemployment insurance: WARN Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2028"
citation: "California AB 2028 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment insurance: WARN Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Koretz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-02-13"
last_action: "2004-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad9fd86c-1322-4587-8919-bd57aecf8f8c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2028"
source_hash: "82cffba9239279bf2f7ed4495c32a6a3de367e221d31a1b39f4553da17d14924"
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 2028 (20032004) — Unemployment insurance: WARN Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2028&version=20030AB202899INT)
2. **09/25/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2028&version=20030AB202897CHP)
3. **AB2028** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2028)
4. **08/24/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2028&version=20030AB202898ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab2028 koretz by dunn — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2028 koretz assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Koretz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 776, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-25** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 13.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-19** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2004-08-11** To inactive file on motion of Senator Dunn.
- **2004-06-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 32. Page 5714.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-02-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2004-02-13** 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/ad9fd86c-1322-4587-8919-bd57aecf8f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).