---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement."
description: "County employees' retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 3044"
citation: "California AB 3044 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2008-02-25"
last_action: "2008-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/895b5f3e-4253-4429-90f0-47958f02ec5a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3044"
source_hash: "96cfa96528bfb4f28b5b4ce1854f19f0a8e99cfa69089f0e4d66cb98d0dc29cc"
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 3044 (20072008) — County employees' retirement.

## 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=200720080AB3044&version=20070AB304499INT)
2. **04/03/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3044&version=20070AB304498AMD)
3. **06/17/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3044&version=20070AB304497AMD)
4. **07/21/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3044&version=20070AB304495CHP)
5. **AB3044** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3044)
6. **07/07/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB3044&version=20070AB304496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 3044 P.E., R.& S.S. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By HERNANDEZ — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB3044 Committee on P.E.,R.& S.S.(Hernan — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 3044 P.E., R.& S.S. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security — primary (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`
- **2008-04-03** 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`
- **2008-04-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-04-24** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-05-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4932.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-17** 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. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-06-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-06-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4519.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-07-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2008-07-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6013.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2008-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 164, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/895b5f3e-4253-4429-90f0-47958f02ec5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).