---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: pension benefits: Fresno County."
description: "County employees' retirement: pension benefits: Fresno County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 1255"
citation: "California AB 1255 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: pension benefits: Fresno County."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parra"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2007-02-23"
last_action: "2007-07-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89659d6e-4cc8-4134-924d-fe26e5cb42da"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255"
source_hash: "1d3682a662f15cf07e75432cdac0e3a8b7534deaf8cc7036c5a68259e57bac3d"
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 1255 (20072008) — County employees' retirement: pension benefits: Fresno County.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255&version=20070AB125599INT)
2. **04/18/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255&version=20070AB125598AMD)
3. **05/10/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255&version=20070AB125597AMD)
4. **07/17/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255&version=20070AB125595CHP)
5. **AB1255** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255)
6. **07/04/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB1255&version=20070AB125596ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1255 Parra Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1255 PARRA Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Parra — primary (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — coauthor (person)
- Villines — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2007-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2007-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2007-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-18** 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-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-10** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 1418.). `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 4. Page 1469.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-06-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-07-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 1630.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-07-02** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2007-07-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:45 p.m.
- **2007-07-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-07-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 86, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89659d6e-4cc8-4134-924d-fe26e5cb42da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).