---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees."
description: "Public employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 3043"
citation: "California AB 3043 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2008-02-25"
last_action: "2008-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/421e4495-376c-4f72-9154-c34e227cf792"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3043"
source_hash: "a65f9042769f318b218abb6ad7ff43401d56f3db0f8726d1c8217db0b55cacb1"
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 3043 (20072008) — Public employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3043&version=20070AB304399INT)
2. **05/23/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3043&version=20070AB304398AMD)
3. **06/30/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3043&version=20070AB304396CHP)
4. **AB3043** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3043)
5. **12/25/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3043&version=20070AB304397ENR)

## Votes

- AB 3043 P.E., R.& S.S. Third Reading Urgency By HERNANDEZ — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB3043 Committee on P.E.,R.& S.S.(Hernan Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security — primary (person)
- Wiggins — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2008-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2008-03-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 22). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2008-05-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-05-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 10. Page 5576.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-06-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-06-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 3. Page 4450.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-06-26** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2008-06-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:20 a.m.
- **2008-06-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-06-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 43, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/421e4495-376c-4f72-9154-c34e227cf792`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).