---
type: "Bill"
title: "County service areas."
description: "County service areas."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2038"
citation: "California AB 2038 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County service areas."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashburn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2002-02-15"
last_action: "2002-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/171d18dd-47ee-4884-aaf4-f7a9910af7ca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2038"
source_hash: "0602fcf24999ec86c70cfceedb594a04ad60236752c45feaf65121e39c07f75b"
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 2038 (20012002) — County service areas.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2038&version=20010AB203899INT)
2. **06/30/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2038&version=20010AB203897CHP)
3. **AB2038** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2038)
4. **06/17/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2038&version=20010AB203898ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2038 Ashburn Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2038 Ashburn — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ashburn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-06-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 82, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-06-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2002-06-17** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-06-17** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4758.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 5871.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-04-29** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-04-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-02-25** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2002-02-15** 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/171d18dd-47ee-4884-aaf4-f7a9910af7ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).