---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employee health benefits: disclosures."
description: "Public employee health benefits: disclosures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 1296"
citation: "California AB 1296 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employee health benefits: disclosures."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torrico"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2007-02-23"
last_action: "2007-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80e27e1c-837b-49fe-ac90-3c7f473db19b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296"
source_hash: "f01a294279f73b66adb44b4e7afc9e2fb3404eb9ee0817e7a899bf1cf854a5a8"
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 1296 (20072008) — Public employee health benefits: disclosures.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129699INT)
2. **04/09/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129698AMD)
3. **04/19/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129697AMD)
4. **05/31/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129696AMD)
5. **07/03/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129695AMD)
6. **07/12/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129694AMD)
7. **08/30/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129693AMD)
8. **10/14/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129691CHP)
9. **AB1296** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296)
10. **09/07/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1296&version=20070AB129692ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1296 TORRICO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1296 TORRICO Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1296 Torrico By Yee — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Amend, and do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Torrico — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2007-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2007-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2007-04-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** 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. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-18** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-05-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-14** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-14** From Consent Calendar. To third reading pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
- **2007-05-31** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 1707.). `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 1840.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-06-14** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-26** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-07-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-11** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-07-12** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-08-20** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2007-08-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-08-30** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-31** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 2328.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2007-09-06** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2997.)
- **2007-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3013.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-11** Enrolled and to the Governor at 7:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 698, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80e27e1c-837b-49fe-ac90-3c7f473db19b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).