---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employees: memoranda of understanding: State Bargaining Units 5 and 8."
description: "State employees: memoranda of understanding: State Bargaining Units 5 and 8."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 649"
citation: "California AB 649 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State employees: memoranda of understanding: State Bargaining Units 5 and 8."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Negrete McLeod"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2001-02-22"
last_action: "2001-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84b080a9-62dd-45c9-b37f-209e5e12db46"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649"
source_hash: "a7517146d2efb70830b9a990d6b2ab5cbe60c4ad80ea7837ea7f7b48a73e5ced"
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 649 (20012002) — State employees: memoranda of understanding: State Bargaining Units 5 and 8.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64999INT)
2. **05/02/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64998AMD)
3. **06/20/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64997AMD)
4. **07/09/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64996AMD)
5. **08/21/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64995AMD)
6. **08/30/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64994AMD)
7. **09/14/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64993AMD)
8. **09/27/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64991CHP)
9. **AB649** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649)
10. **09/15/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB649&version=20010AB64992ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 649 Negrete McLeod Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 649 Negrete McLeod Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Inactive File AB649 NegreteMcLeo By Dunn — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Negrete McLeod — primary (person)
- Dunn — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 364, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-09-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2001-09-15** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4063.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-14** From inactive file. To third reading. Amended. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 3028.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-13** To inactive file on motion of Senator Soto.
- **2001-09-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2001-09-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-09-06** In committee: Held under submission.
- **2001-08-30** 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`
- **2001-08-21** 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`
- **2001-07-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-07-09** 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`
- **2001-06-20** 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`
- **2001-05-31** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 1661.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-18** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2001-02-22** 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/84b080a9-62dd-45c9-b37f-209e5e12db46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).