---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legislative retirement."
description: "Legislative retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 817"
citation: "California AB 817 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislative retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "1999-02-24"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7df1a98a-9a1c-4d08-af11-89e7bfb6f185"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB817"
source_hash: "6ecf774997aabf08850a4ef6e480c980466bfd6408974ffff1df28564a45be2a"
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 817 (19992000) — Legislative retirement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB817&version=19990AB81799INT)
2. **09/02/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB817&version=19990AB81798AMD)
3. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB817&version=19990AB81796CHP)
4. **AB817** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB817)
5. **09/21/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB817&version=19990AB81797ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB817 Committee on P.E.R.S. & S. (Corre By Ortiz — **pass** (pass) · upper
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 897, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m. (Corrected September 21. )
- **1999-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 4348.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **1999-09-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3019.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-02** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-31** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **1999-08-23** To inactive file on motion of Senator Ortiz.
- **1999-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-16** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **1999-07-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **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 1777.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **1999-02-24** 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/7df1a98a-9a1c-4d08-af11-89e7bfb6f185`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).