---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees: public safety members: biochemical substances."
description: "Public employees: public safety members: biochemical substances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1847"
citation: "California AB 1847 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees: public safety members: biochemical substances."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2002-01-28"
last_action: "2002-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72c64d26-adf1-44de-99f5-a26e54bf4d5d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847"
source_hash: "fa02d22322bc0de83d42c0cd4b925a211b6e5f47634db3b397751dee8cc2b602"
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 1847 (20012002) — Public employees: public safety members: biochemical substances.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/28/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847&version=20010AB184799INT)
2. **03/12/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847&version=20010AB184798AMD)
3. **04/17/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847&version=20010AB184797AMD)
4. **09/26/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847&version=20010AB184795CHP)
5. **AB1847** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847)
6. **08/27/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1847&version=20010AB184796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1847 Correa By Soto — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Insurance. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1847 Correa Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)
- Briggs — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Florez — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Matthews — coauthor (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 870, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-27** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 5784.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-05** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2002-06-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6512.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 2.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-04** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-03-13** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-03-12** 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-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-02-04** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security and Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-29** From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
- **2002-01-28** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72c64d26-adf1-44de-99f5-a26e54bf4d5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).