---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disability compensation: voluntary plans."
description: "Existing law authorizes an employer, a majority of the employees employed in this state of an employer, or both, to apply to the Director of Employment Development for approval of a voluntary plan for the payment of disability benefits to the employees electing to be in a voluntary plan. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, authorizes the Director of Employment Development to approve a single voluntary plan for all of the small-business-third-party administrator's clients and their employees if specified criteria are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2733"
citation: "California AB 2733 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disability compensation: voluntary plans."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-25"
last_action: "2014-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4660c305-c764-483e-94ce-685eafbbad83"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2733"
source_hash: "631b614bd13f4632d73d8bd99418ab48b0afcebc98ac80f371efbfb6b294e61f"
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 2733 (20132014) — Disability compensation: voluntary plans.

Existing law authorizes an employer, a majority of the employees employed in this state of an employer, or both, to apply to the Director of Employment Development for approval of a voluntary plan for the payment of disability benefits to the employees electing to be in a voluntary plan. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, authorizes the Director of Employment Development to approve a single voluntary plan for all of the small-business-third-party administrator's clients and their employees if specified criteria are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2733&version=20130AB273399INT)
2. **05/12/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2733&version=20130AB273398AMD)
3. **07/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2733&version=20130AB273396CHP)
4. **AB2733** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2733)
5. **07/02/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2733&version=20130AB273397ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2733 Committee on INS. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2733 INS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By PEREA — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2733 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4601.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-23** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4145.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5736.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2014-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 150, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4660c305-c764-483e-94ce-685eafbbad83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).