republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20032004/ab-2234.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement."
description: "County employees' retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2234"
citation: "California AB 2234 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-18"
last_action: "2004-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d72e2ee-b745-488c-9a86-691ba91b319d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234"
source_hash: "8d5ca536e998f84d7e86a02075b9746b5a00f3a460ef07add67ea353f610ae30"
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 2234 (20032004) — County employees' retirement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234&version=20030AB223499INT)
2. **04/15/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234&version=20030AB223498AMD)
3. **06/10/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234&version=20030AB223497AMD)
4. **08/09/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234&version=20030AB223496AMD)
5. **09/15/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234&version=20030AB223494CHP)
6. **AB2234** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234)
7. **08/19/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2234&version=20030AB223495ENR)

## Votes

- ab 2234 p.e., r.& s.s. concurrence in senate amendments by negrete mcleod — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab2234 committee on p.e.r.s.& s.(negrete by romero — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2234 p.e., r.& s.s. assembly third reading by negrete mcleod — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 533, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2004-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 7378.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 2. Page 5039.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-09** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-05** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2004-07-02** To inactive file on motion of Senator Soto.
- **2004-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-17** From Consent Calendar. To third reading. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-16** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5916.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2004-02-18** 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/7d72e2ee-b745-488c-9a86-691ba91b319d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).