---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement: part-time employees."
description: "Public employees' retirement: part-time employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2549"
citation: "California AB 2549 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement: part-time employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nation"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2002-02-21"
last_action: "2002-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f72e2764-5645-418c-b88b-87ab085549f4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549"
source_hash: "fc8f3f2307cdf7aa75a6ee02383cebc43dc68db1e7c5cbf9b9d0274a227f8fa6"
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 2549 (20012002) — Public employees' retirement: part-time employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549&version=20010AB254999INT)
2. **04/29/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549&version=20010AB254998AMD)
3. **05/06/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549&version=20010AB254997AMD)
4. **08/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549&version=20010AB254996AMD)
5. **09/28/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549&version=20010AB254994CHP)
6. **AB2549** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549)
7. **08/29/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2549&version=20010AB254995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2549 Nation Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2549 Nation By O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2549 Nation Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nation — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1045, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2002-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 27. Page 8434.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 5833.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-05** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2002-06-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-04** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 6572.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 7.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-06** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-05-02** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-29** 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. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2002-02-21** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. 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/f72e2764-5645-418c-b88b-87ab085549f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).