---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: San Mateo County."
description: "County employees' retirement: San Mateo County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 398"
citation: "California AB 398 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: San Mateo County."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mullin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-02-14"
last_action: "2003-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45bb4c71-2af3-4667-a70a-8350dae2bb1e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB398"
source_hash: "7cd4432be81e9999f0f6352a229cfbd624fab8ee8cc9560b8e7a5f03258c5b20"
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 398 (20032004) — County employees' retirement: San Mateo County.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB398&version=20030AB39899INT)
2. **04/24/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB398&version=20030AB39898AMD)
3. **07/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB398&version=20030AB39896CHP)
4. **AB398** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB398)
5. **07/07/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB398&version=20030AB39897ENR)

## Votes

- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent #18 ab398 mullin — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 398 mullin third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mullin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-07-07** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1668.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-16** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2003-06-11** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-12** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1623.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security 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`
- **2003-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2003-02-14** 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/45bb4c71-2af3-4667-a70a-8350dae2bb1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).