---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: employees: firefighters."
description: "Existing law authorizes the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to administer, prepare, and circulate to local governments a list of permanent career civilian federal, state, and local government firefighters eligible for appointment to a local government firefighter position. Existing law permits a permanent career civilian federal, state, or local government firefighter to apply for placement on the list after he or she receives a notice of termination or a priority placement notice and requires his or her name to remain on the list for a period of 48 months. Existing law requires that placement on the list be determined by length of service as a permanent career civilian federal, state, or local government firefighter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 312"
citation: "California AB 312 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: employees: firefighters."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-12"
last_action: "2013-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93803691-cb0a-4060-abb6-7d0033f87347"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB312"
source_hash: "4a5f02be4d6f3cbd52240c5dbfd4f8b7a09392405af45ea84041bfc6d36c5bfe"
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 312 (20132014) — Local government: employees: firefighters.

Existing law authorizes the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to administer, prepare, and circulate to local governments a list of permanent career civilian federal, state, and local government firefighters eligible for appointment to a local government firefighter position. Existing law permits a permanent career civilian federal, state, or local government firefighter to apply for placement on the list after he or she receives a notice of termination or a priority placement notice and requires his or her name to remain on the list for a period of 48 months. Existing law requires that placement on the list be determined by length of service as a permanent career civilian federal, state, or local government firefighter.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB312&version=20130AB31299INT)
2. **04/08/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB312&version=20130AB31298AMD)
3. **08/28/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB312&version=20130AB31296CHP)
4. **AB312** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB312)
5. **08/20/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB312&version=20130AB31297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 312 WIECKOWSKI Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wieckowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-16** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1576.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1844.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-15** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-08-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 195, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93803691-cb0a-4060-abb6-7d0033f87347`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).