republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20072008-special-session-3/ab-3.md

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Bill	Reductions in the Budget Act of 2007 relating to state government: fiscal emergency.	Reductions in the Budget Act of 2007 relating to state government: fiscal emergency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20072008 Special Session 3	AB 3	California AB 3 (20072008 Special Session 3)	bill appropriation	Reductions in the Budget Act of 2007 relating to state government: fiscal emergency.	enacted	Committee on Budget	6	18	3	2008-02-04	2008-02-16	openstates	ocd-bill/2dd2cc8a-5d8d-4058-b9bf-97ca9f922820	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720083AB3	ec113f734292ef390d5d86556b993496f9a9b93fadc10eda3e43f771f2c5c102	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3 (20072008 Special Session 3) — Reductions in the Budget Act of 2007 relating to state government: fiscal emergency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/07/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/15/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 02/16/08 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB3 (committee substitute) — source
6. 02/15/08 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB3 BUDGET Third Reading Urgency By LAIRD Third Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB3 Committee on BUDGET (Laird) Urgency Clause — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-02-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2008-02-05 From printer.
• 2008-02-07 Referred to Standing Committee on Budget. referral-committee
• 2008-02-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Budget. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee
• 2008-02-08 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Budget. referral-committee
• 2008-02-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2008-02-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 26. Noes 0.) (February 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2008-02-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage
• 2008-02-15 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 51.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2008-02-15 In Senate.
• 2008-02-15 Read first time. reading-1
• 2008-02-15 Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 26.)
• 2008-02-15 Read second time. reading-1, reading-2
• 2008-02-15 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 2. Page 27.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2008-02-15 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2008-02-15 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2008-02-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2008-02-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1, Statutes of 2007-08 Third Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2dd2cc8a-5d8d-4058-b9bf-97ca9f922820. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).