---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law enforcement officers: special death benefits."
description: "Law enforcement officers: special death benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 933"
citation: "California AB 933 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law enforcement officers: special death benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2003-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ea2eb06-7c3f-4c9e-9eba-9234ba733832"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933"
source_hash: "d9fe8f0b394d36570be5ad10442144e49b2aa6cde9882d2be08775253dae5d5c"
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 933 (20032004) — Law enforcement officers: special death benefits.

## 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=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93399INT)
2. **04/09/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93398AMD)
3. **06/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93397AMD)
4. **06/26/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93396AMD)
5. **09/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93395AMD)
6. **09/08/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93394AMD)
7. **10/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93392CHP)
8. **AB933** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933)
9. **09/12/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB933&version=20030AB93393ENR)

## Votes

- special consent cale ab933 reyes by escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent cale ab933 reyes — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass and be re-referred to the committee on public employees, retirement and social security to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 933 reyes assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reyes — primary (person)
- Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Correa — principal coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Samuelian — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 840, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2003-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3883.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2478.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** In Senate. Held at Desk. Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. Ordered returned to third reading. `passage, amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2003-09-08** From Special Consent Calendar. Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2003-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2003-09-04** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2349.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **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 with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-26** 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`
- **2003-06-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-02** 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`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1693.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 7). `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`
- **2003-04-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-09** 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`
- **2003-04-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-20** Referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education and 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/1ea2eb06-7c3f-4c9e-9eba-9234ba733832`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).