---
type: "Bill"
title: "Surviving spouses: deceased firefighters and peace officers: health benefits."
description: "Surviving spouses: deceased firefighters and peace officers: health benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 753"
citation: "California AB 753 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Surviving spouses: deceased firefighters and peace officers: health benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leslie"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2004-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a4606fd-a862-41a5-8352-342f91664b9a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753"
source_hash: "e922c31ba295e287b412b6c321bb3a0a1362d219a62f9983bad8abd2255735b8"
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 753 (20032004) — Surviving spouses: deceased firefighters and peace officers: health benefits.

## 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=200320040AB753&version=20030AB75399INT)
2. **03/24/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753&version=20030AB75398AMD)
3. **06/07/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753&version=20030AB75397AMD)
4. **07/08/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753&version=20030AB75396AMD)
5. **09/10/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753&version=20030AB75394CHP)
6. **AB753** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753)
7. **08/17/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB753&version=20030AB75395ENR)

## Votes

- ab 753 leslie assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab753 leslie by battin — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab753 leslie by battin — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 753 leslie concurrence- urgency added — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leslie — primary (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Battin — coauthor (person)
- Benoit — coauthor (person)
- Dutton — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Hollingsworth — coauthor (person)
- Maze — coauthor (person)
- Nakanishi — coauthor (person)
- Samuelian — coauthor (person)
- Shirley Horton — author (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 440, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2004-08-17** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 7233.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-12** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage`
- **2004-08-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2004-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-05** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 4788.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-08** Action rescinded whereby urgency clause was adopted, bill read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time and amended. To second reading. `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2004-07-02** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2004-07-01** Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Ordered returned to Senate. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-06-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 2. Page 4358.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-21** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-06-07** 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`
- **2003-08-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
- **2003-07-14** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 28). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1967.) `passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-3, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `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/3a4606fd-a862-41a5-8352-342f91664b9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).