---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement: retirement benefit enhancement."
description: "Public employees' retirement: retirement benefit enhancement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 719"
citation: "California AB 719 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement: retirement benefit enhancement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Negrete McLeod"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/964d4a0c-c770-4836-9797-d74023c98702"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719"
source_hash: "f3bed2290f5ad0c4b1563e1c6d4cb31beea191b03172f4d5703459aad2a901e0"
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 719 (20032004) — Public employees' retirement: retirement benefit enhancement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719&version=20030AB71999INT)
2. **03/24/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719&version=20030AB71998AMD)
3. **08/18/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719&version=20030AB71997AMD)
4. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719&version=20030AB71995CHP)
5. **AB719** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719)
6. **09/13/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB719&version=20030AB71996ENR)

## Votes

- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 719 negrete mcleod assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 838, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2003-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 65. Noes 6. Page 3924.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2003-09-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 2588.) `passage, reading-3, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
- **2003-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-14** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-06-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-27** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 2. Page 1899.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 23. Noes 1.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-24** 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`
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2003-02-19** 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/964d4a0c-c770-4836-9797-d74023c98702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).