---
type: "Bill"
title: "County retirement: benefits: cost-of-living adjustments."
description: "County retirement: benefits: cost-of-living adjustments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 316"
citation: "California AB 316 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County retirement: benefits: cost-of-living adjustments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Machado"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "1999-02-08"
last_action: "1999-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e538751-d01d-4b0f-ae9e-f8829ef47e59"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB316"
source_hash: "51d810e83f4b484898b7a378914619de30758f02d8e4ad4fb4f069ac13a1e15b"
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 316 (19992000) — County retirement: benefits: cost-of-living adjustments.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB316&version=19990AB31699INT)
2. **06/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB316&version=19990AB31697CHP)
3. **AB316** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB316)
4. **06/10/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB316&version=19990AB31698ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB316 Machado — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 316 MACHADO THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Machado — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 39, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-06-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **1999-06-10** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-06-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 1666.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-03-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 22. Page 746.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-03-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-03-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (March 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-02-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **1999-02-08** 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/5e538751-d01d-4b0f-ae9e-f8829ef47e59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).