---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement: benefits."
description: "Retirement: benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1937"
citation: "California AB 1937 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement: benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2000-02-15"
last_action: "2000-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/331becd8-cabc-47b4-b968-1436f807d6d8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937"
source_hash: "20db130d981545aa2e5eddc246a57c5f2cedcc9691f6120d74608dcab094424b"
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 1937 (19992000) — Retirement: benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937&version=19990AB193799INT)
2. **05/09/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937&version=19990AB193798AMD)
3. **06/21/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937&version=19990AB193797AMD)
4. **08/25/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937&version=19990AB193795CHP)
5. **AB1937** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937)
6. **08/10/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1937&version=19990AB193796ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1937 Correa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)
- Briggs — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — principal coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 237, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-08-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-08-21** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2000-08-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 7833.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-07-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-07-06** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5496.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-06-28** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-06-21** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6379.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-10** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 3). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2000-04-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-02-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2000-02-15** 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/331becd8-cabc-47b4-b968-1436f807d6d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).