---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: death benefits."
description: "County employees' retirement: death benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2777"
citation: "California AB 2777 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: death benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nation"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-25"
last_action: "2002-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff868542-d8d3-41e0-96f7-2fae6f481303"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777"
source_hash: "ed6b3806ecdaf0a467d4b04ce2bc75e12cbd40b4ae871c590785337d5203b34c"
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 2777 (20012002) — County employees' retirement: death benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777&version=20010AB277799INT)
2. **04/08/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777&version=20010AB277798AMD)
3. **06/06/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777&version=20010AB277797AMD)
4. **08/05/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777&version=20010AB277796AMD)
5. **09/05/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777&version=20010AB277794CHP)
6. **AB2777** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777)
7. **08/15/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2777&version=20010AB277795ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2777 Nation Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2777 Nation By Kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2777 Nation Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nation — primary (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 373, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2002-08-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 44. Noes 29. Page 7639.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 14. Page 5350.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-05** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-06-13** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-16** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 26. Page 6132.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-08** 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`
- **2002-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2002-02-25** Joint Rule 54 (a) suspended. 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/ff868542-d8d3-41e0-96f7-2fae6f481303`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).