---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees: retirement: benefits."
description: "County employees: retirement: benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 947"
citation: "California AB 947 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees: retirement: benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lempert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "1999-02-25"
last_action: "1999-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5522089e-c286-4ece-87c7-7643b5a3cd9c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB947"
source_hash: "994e97af9ed19abc02ae16914ddc691eef1056b0cdb65cce47c48615e68b3ad9"
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 947 (19992000) — County employees: retirement: benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB947&version=19990AB94799INT)
2. **07/13/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB947&version=19990AB94797CHP)
3. **AB947** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB947)
4. **07/01/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB947&version=19990AB94798ENR)

## Votes

- AB 947 LEMPERT THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB947 Lempert By Sher — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lempert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-07-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 116, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-07-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-07-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:45 p.m.
- **1999-07-01** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-07-01** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2028.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-05-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 1670.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **1999-02-25** 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/5522089e-c286-4ece-87c7-7643b5a3cd9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).