---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: safety membership."
description: "County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: safety membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1947"
citation: "California AB 1947 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: safety membership."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maldonado"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2000-02-15"
last_action: "2000-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e380112a-2024-4b10-a80d-545db7bc22c5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1947"
source_hash: "112f58a6af51b7ba2bb7d0ce1163d178e13d7df39cd0a20a1d511f3eadb4128a"
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 1947 (19992000) — County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: safety membership.

## 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=199920000AB1947&version=19990AB194799INT)
2. **05/26/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1947&version=19990AB194798AMD)
3. **09/11/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1947&version=19990AB194796CHP)
4. **AB1947** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1947)
5. **08/18/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1947&version=19990AB194797ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1947 Maldonado By Ortiz — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1947 MALDONADO THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maldonado — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 379, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-08-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2000-08-18** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2000-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 5790.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-06-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-06-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 4. Page 6684.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-26** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **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/e380112a-2024-4b10-a80d-545db7bc22c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).