---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement."
description: "County employees' retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 979"
citation: "California AB 979 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Negrete McLeod"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6ff00bb-805e-49df-8ba8-d5f19897f5ea"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979"
source_hash: "615c8b48c64dcc1730e94391a23d84f5ed3e19cc13c4b8cae00b35da3ea3b78d"
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 979 (20032004) — County employees' retirement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979&version=20030AB97999INT)
2. **01/06/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979&version=20030AB97998AMD)
3. **01/16/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979&version=20030AB97997AMD)
4. **04/14/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979&version=20030AB97996AMD)
5. **09/10/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979&version=20030AB97994CHP)
6. **AB979** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979)
7. **08/16/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB979&version=20030AB97995ENR)

## Votes

- ab 979 negrete mcleod concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- assembly 3rd reading ab979 negrete mcle by soto — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 979 negrete mcleod consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 441, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2004-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 7138.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 3. Page 4840.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-06-17** From Consent Calendar. To third reading. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-06-16** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-14** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-02-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-01-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4391.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-22** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-01-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (January 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-01-20** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-16** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-01-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-06** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2003-02-20** 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/c6ff00bb-805e-49df-8ba8-d5f19897f5ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).