---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: disability retirement."
description: "County employees' retirement: disability retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2982"
citation: "California AB 2982 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: disability retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pacheco"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15596c27-540e-4d66-82f2-2f02ba6adb29"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982"
source_hash: "6b6d77ca8f445a6ff06aaaf99c1c9b897cbb07d7e91eff4fde5ab34fd86fbb2d"
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 2982 (20032004) — County employees' retirement: disability retirement.

## 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=200320040AB2982&version=20030AB298299INT)
2. **05/26/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982&version=20030AB298298AMD)
3. **06/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982&version=20030AB298297AMD)
4. **06/29/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982&version=20030AB298296AMD)
5. **08/30/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982&version=20030AB298294CHP)
6. **AB2982** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982)
7. **08/16/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2982&version=20030AB298295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2982 pacheco concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent cale ab2982 pacheco — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2982 pacheco third reading urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pacheco — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 379, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2004-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 7163.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-10** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4858.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-07-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-29** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-28** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Rules (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-27** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 6144.) Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6150.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-26** 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 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-18** 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/15596c27-540e-4d66-82f2-2f02ba6adb29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).