---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: benefits."
description: "County employees' retirement: benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 3008"
citation: "California AB 3008 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da27aafc-07c2-403b-8c91-4c34209e30ca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008"
source_hash: "c4e555aa708e5de1a48391a5190dc1553d56bd4ca7a916698ca15233a976c094"
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 3008 (20032004) — County employees' retirement: benefits.

## 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=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300899INT)
2. **03/23/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300898AMD)
3. **06/08/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300897AMD)
4. **06/30/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300896AMD)
5. **08/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300895AMD)
6. **09/21/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300893CHP)
7. **AB3008** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008)
8. **08/25/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB3008&version=20030AB300894ENR)

## Votes

- ab 3008 chan assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab3008 chan by perata — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 3008 chan concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 662, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2004-08-25** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7721.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 7760.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 10. Page 5246.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-30** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **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 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-08** 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`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `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 49. Noes 28. Page 5724.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **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/da27aafc-07c2-403b-8c91-4c34209e30ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).