---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: purchasing power protection."
description: "County employees' retirement: purchasing power protection."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2894"
citation: "California AB 2894 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: purchasing power protection."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6292fac5-01c1-4d2d-93dc-5a1ad9a2d0bd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2894"
source_hash: "57c80c83254aa1f5b10c742dacba71dc7fcdfd357f4522c3f7c4bae347b9288f"
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 2894 (20032004) — County employees' retirement: purchasing power protection.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2894&version=20030AB289499INT)
2. **05/20/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2894&version=20030AB289498AMD)
3. **09/09/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2894&version=20030AB289496CHP)
4. **AB2894** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2894)
5. **08/19/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2894&version=20030AB289497ENR)

## Votes

- ab 2894 wiggins assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab2894 wiggins by chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 435, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-19** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-08-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 5099.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-28** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2004-06-17** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 3. Page 5917.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-20** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2004-02-20** 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/6292fac5-01c1-4d2d-93dc-5a1ad9a2d0bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).