---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment insurance: unemployment compensation benefits."
description: "Unemployment insurance: unemployment compensation benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 798"
citation: "California AB 798 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment insurance: unemployment compensation benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5abb3ee0-5ac7-4589-ae89-75e81e491c2c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798"
source_hash: "59b72be9884b516da78483c16b6535166de6e45b200e0f457f92b4b19c896ce1"
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 798 (20072008) — Unemployment insurance: unemployment compensation benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798&version=20070AB79899INT)
2. **06/20/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798&version=20070AB79898AMD)
3. **07/18/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798&version=20070AB79897AMD)
4. **08/21/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798&version=20070AB79896AMD)
5. **10/05/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798&version=20070AB79894CHP)
6. **AB798** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798)
7. **09/17/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB798&version=20070AB79895ENR)

## Votes

- AB 798 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 798 INS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By COTO — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB798 Committee on INS. (Coto) By Migden — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-03-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-04-12** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-04-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1074.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-27** 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, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-07-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-07-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-18** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-21** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2304.) `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.)
- **2007-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3073.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 272, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5abb3ee0-5ac7-4589-ae89-75e81e491c2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).