---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement: death benefits."
description: "Public employees' retirement: death benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2678"
citation: "California AB 2678 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement: death benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aanestad"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2002-02-22"
last_action: "2002-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b6452ce-8a35-44c4-ab81-e7c627332be2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678"
source_hash: "6abd3565e5114df6d9f272cb562e0fa3167aaeb74c88047e1618fce74ab30e4e"
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 2678 (20012002) — Public employees' retirement: death benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678&version=20010AB267899INT)
2. **04/09/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678&version=20010AB267898AMD)
3. **08/08/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678&version=20010AB267897AMD)
4. **09/27/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678&version=20010AB267895CHP)
5. **AB2678** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678)
6. **08/20/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2678&version=20010AB267896ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2678 Aanestad By Oller — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2678 Aanestad Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2678 Aanestad Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aanestad — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 954, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 7833.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-19** From Special Consent Calendar. To unfinished business file.
- **2002-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5421.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-08** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-06-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-12** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-13** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6071.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-09** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2002-05-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-09** 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`
- **2002-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-03-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2002-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2002-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b6452ce-8a35-44c4-ab81-e7c627332be2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).