---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: continuous service."
description: "County employees' retirement: continuous service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 85"
citation: "California AB 85 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: continuous service."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-01-06"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d4b5786-3a8f-4e2b-bd28-7ed20f032708"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85"
source_hash: "b4da70f549a6d806674f5a3a895c6e48530fb62080bc770f4fbd417f2e70902e"
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 85 (20032004) — County employees' retirement: continuous service.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8599INT)
2. **04/23/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8598AMD)
3. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8597AMD)
4. **06/16/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8596AMD)
5. **06/27/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8595AMD)
6. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8593CHP)
7. **AB85** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85)
8. **09/09/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB85&version=20030AB8594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab85 wiggins by escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 85 wiggins assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 85 wiggins concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 830, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2003-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 57. Noes 21. Page 3670.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-08** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 8). `committee-passage`
- **2003-09-02** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2003-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 2174.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-27** 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`
- **2003-06-16** 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`
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2174.) `passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 28). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-03** Read second time. To third reading. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations by unanimous consent. `referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-01-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
- **2003-01-06** 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/7d4b5786-3a8f-4e2b-bd28-7ed20f032708`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).