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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County employees' retirement."
+description: "Under existing law, counties and districts may provide retirement benefits to their employees pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) . CERL specifies the minimum ages and years of service that are required in order to become eligible for retirement. That law generally permits the board of supervisors of a county or the governing board of a district, by resolution adopted by majority vote and pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, as specified, to make certain formulas for the calculation of benefits for its members based on their classification."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 329"
+citation: "California AB 329 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["County employees' retirement."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dickinson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2011-02-10"
+last_action: "2011-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38f8c445-9647-481d-bf9a-b875a1cb6d69"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB329"
+source_hash: "5c32cb21e98ea918676c3c3b2e842ee34aab4053e3eeb88a53f5b9e4730ba514"
+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 329 (20112012) — County employees' retirement.
+
+Under existing law, counties and districts may provide retirement benefits to their employees pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) . CERL specifies the minimum ages and years of service that are required in order to become eligible for retirement. That law generally permits the board of supervisors of a county or the governing board of a district, by resolution adopted by majority vote and pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, as specified, to make certain formulas for the calculation of benefits for its members based on their classification.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/10/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB329&version=20110AB32999INT)
+2. **03/16/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB329&version=20110AB32998AMD)
+3. **06/13/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB329&version=20110AB32996CHP)
+4. **AB329** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB329)
+5. **05/31/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB329&version=20110AB32997ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 329 DICKINSON Third Reading Urgency — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB329 Dickinson By Negrete McLeod Urgency Clause — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dickinson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
+- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-03-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-04-04** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 812.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-04-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2011-04-14** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-05-27** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1136.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-05-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2011-06-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2011-06-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-06-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 26, Statutes of 2011.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38f8c445-9647-481d-bf9a-b875a1cb6d69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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