---
type: "Bill"
title: "Classified employees."
description: "Classified employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 918"
citation: "California AB 918 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Classified employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2003-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1107a0bc-0edc-468c-8b47-cfe40140d316"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB918"
source_hash: "30347c1bc6032e9d8d37f02fe89df09d499714645e95498e8989e9f2d72a792f"
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 918 (20032004) — Classified employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB918&version=20030AB91899INT)
2. **06/05/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB918&version=20030AB91898AMD)
3. **09/04/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB918&version=20030AB91896CHP)
4. **AB918** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB918)
5. **08/21/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB918&version=20030AB91897ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab918 chan by alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab918 chan by alarcon reconsider — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 918 chan assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 918 chan concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab918 chan by alarcon — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chan — primary (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 280, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2003-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 3068.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-07-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 1950.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-21** Read third time, passage refused. (Ayes 20. Noes 15. Page 1901.) Motion to reconsider made by Senator Alarcon. Reconsideration granted. (Page 1901.) `reading-3, reading-1`
- **2003-06-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-07** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 953.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2003-02-20** 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/1107a0bc-0edc-468c-8b47-cfe40140d316`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).