---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: temporary disability payments."
description: "Workers' compensation: temporary disability payments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 338"
citation: "California AB 338 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: temporary disability payments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coto"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2007-02-14"
last_action: "2007-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62364fa4-6452-40ee-966f-3b8b07f1c731"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338"
source_hash: "a1e049ff34cceb1b492feafcd098f1bd98ad62682d2316a980c351c5e6feb9c7"
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 338 (20072008) — Workers' compensation: temporary disability payments.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33899INT)
2. **03/29/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33898AMD)
3. **06/06/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33897AMD)
4. **07/17/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33896AMD)
5. **09/06/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33895AMD)
6. **10/13/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33893CHP)
7. **AB338** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338)
8. **09/24/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB338&version=20070AB33894ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB338 Coto By Cedillo — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 338 Coto Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 338 COTO Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Coto — primary (person)
- Benoit — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2007-02-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations by unanimous consent. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 31). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-06** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 2039.). `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 24. Page 2042.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-06-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-17** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-20** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-20** From committee: Re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 1918.). `committee-passage`
- **2007-08-31** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 7.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-08-31** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-06** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 3. Page 2529.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2007-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3290.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-10-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 595, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62364fa4-6452-40ee-966f-3b8b07f1c731`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).