---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement: contracting agencies."
description: "Public employees' retirement: contracting agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2909"
citation: "California AB 2909 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement: contracting agencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiggins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-25"
last_action: "2002-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/908387b6-1c82-4722-96e7-19b83c803367"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2909"
source_hash: "984e69cf529af8ecdffdb2498ebf16e21e55239fa6309b273b09160b8d8b1cc8"
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 2909 (20012002) — Public employees' retirement: contracting agencies.

## 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=200120020AB2909&version=20010AB290999INT)
2. **04/18/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2909&version=20010AB290998AMD)
3. **09/26/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2909&version=20010AB290996CHP)
4. **AB2909** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2909)
5. **08/28/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2909&version=20010AB290997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2909 Wiggins Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2909 Wiggins By O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wiggins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 889, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-28** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-08-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 5878.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-24** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2002-06-12** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 16. Page 5989.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 4.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-18** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-17** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 16). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-14** 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/908387b6-1c82-4722-96e7-19b83c803367`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).