---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement."
description: "County employees' retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 455"
citation: "California AB 455 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashburn"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "1999-02-16"
last_action: "1999-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/353b5737-ddc2-49fa-b4e7-a325e1bfe52a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB455"
source_hash: "d2b9caa8f802d095aafa194c0731c9a76a6da133568c081a15ec93fc6ee218a4"
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 455 (19992000) — County employees' retirement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB455&version=19990AB45599INT)
2. **06/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB455&version=19990AB45597CHP)
3. **AB455** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB455)
4. **06/21/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB455&version=19990AB45598ENR)

## Votes

- AB 455 COOK Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB455 Ashburn — **pass** (pass) · upper
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 455 COOK Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ashburn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-06-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **1999-06-21** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-06-21** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1783.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-16** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-06-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-05-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1773.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-03-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **1999-02-16** 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/353b5737-ddc2-49fa-b4e7-a325e1bfe52a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).