---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care and insurance benefits."
description: "Health care and insurance benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2208"
citation: "California AB 2208 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care and insurance benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kehoe"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2004-02-18"
last_action: "2004-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee7094d3-2940-4cc8-a1ed-907e7920b0de"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208"
source_hash: "a5a1928f8239850c90e37e18ff01e7c1469de277f65e91ac61e6d794c5977007"
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 2208 (20032004) — Health care and insurance benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220899INT)
2. **04/12/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220898AMD)
3. **04/27/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220897AMD)
4. **07/06/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220896AMD)
5. **08/16/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220895AMD)
6. **09/13/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220893CHP)
7. **AB2208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208)
8. **08/25/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2208&version=20030AB220894ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2208 kehoe concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2208 kehoe assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab2208 kehoe by kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kehoe — primary (person)
- Dymally — coauthor (person)
- Goldberg — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — principal coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — principal coauthor (person)
- Nation — coauthor (person)
- Ridley-Thomas — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Speier — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 488, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-13** 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 46. Noes 29. Page 7673.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 5105.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-20** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-07-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-07-06** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-02** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 1.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 31. Page 5825.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 4.) (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-27** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 20). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-31** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (March 30). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Health and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2004-02-18** 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/ee7094d3-2940-4cc8-a1ed-907e7920b0de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).