---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employees: memorandum of understanding."
description: "State employees: memorandum of understanding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 736"
citation: "California AB 736 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State employees: memorandum of understanding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Oropeza"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2001-02-22"
last_action: "2002-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9578fc24-b063-424d-80ba-5dc08aa49d2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB736"
source_hash: "7194b813b57e3b734ec05361b1b9def706e7607fd315f308f346c24b24d311c9"
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 736 (20012002) — State employees: memorandum of understanding.

## 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=200120020AB736&version=20010AB73699INT)
2. **08/05/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB736&version=20010AB73698AMD)
3. **09/11/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB736&version=20010AB73696CHP)
4. **AB736** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB736)
5. **08/23/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB736&version=20010AB73697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 736 Oropeza Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 736 Oropeza — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB736 Oropeza By Alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 736 Oropeza Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **fail** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Oropeza — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 456, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-26** Reconsideration granted. (Page 8151.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 59. Noes 16. Page 8151.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-24** Motion to reconsider continued until Monday, August 26.
- **2002-08-23** Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. (Ayes 52. Noes 13. Page 7985.) Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Oropeza. `committee-failure`
- **2002-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (August 6). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-05** 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`
- **2001-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1871.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-18** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **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/9578fc24-b063-424d-80ba-5dc08aa49d2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).