---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employee retirement: benefits."
description: "County employee retirement: benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 288"
citation: "California AB 288 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employee retirement: benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wesson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "1999-02-04"
last_action: "1999-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d9fc45b-bff4-4821-8e36-05608f26bf18"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB288"
source_hash: "0c2dacdb9c15ff7b57ee25c35a50a5f6b1561b0f65f85b2293a634265cf56c01"
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 288 (19992000) — County employee retirement: benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB288&version=19990AB28899INT)
2. **02/18/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB288&version=19990AB28898AMD)
3. **03/24/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB288&version=19990AB28896CHP)
4. **AB288** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB288)
5. **03/11/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB288&version=19990AB28897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 288 WESSON 3RD READING URGENCY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB288 Wesson By Karnette — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wesson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-03-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-03-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-03-15** Enrolled and to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
- **1999-03-11** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-03-11** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 363.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-03-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-03-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-03-01** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 546.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-02-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-02-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (February 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-02-19** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-18** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-02-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-12** Art. IV, Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with and Joint Rule 55 suspended.
- **1999-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **1999-02-04** 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/5d9fc45b-bff4-4821-8e36-05608f26bf18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).