---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postemployment health benefits: Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District: employer contributions."
description: "Existing law requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to administer the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act. Existing law permits a contracting agency to elect to be subject to the act for its employees and annuitants, provided that the contracting agency and each employee or annuitant contribute a portion of the cost of providing the benefit coverage, as specified. Under this formulation, the employer contribution for the contracting agency begins at 10 years of service and reaches 100% of a specified amount when the employee attains 20 years of credited service, with certain exceptions. Existing law provides alternate formulations for specified contracting agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1346"
citation: "California AB 1346 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Postemployment health benefits: Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District: employer contributions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c508c4f9-8ab2-489d-82e4-21d17110cb2f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346"
source_hash: "bc72d62b2b94c096f64732f4e73c293e9eafe09cfddf3beeaa49bb2f41e0cccf"
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 1346 (20132014) — Postemployment health benefits: Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District: employer contributions.

Existing law requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to administer the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act. Existing law permits a contracting agency to elect to be subject to the act for its employees and annuitants, provided that the contracting agency and each employee or annuitant contribute a portion of the cost of providing the benefit coverage, as specified. Under this formulation, the employer contribution for the contracting agency begins at 10 years of service and reaches 100% of a specified amount when the employee attains 20 years of credited service, with certain exceptions. Existing law provides alternate formulations for specified contracting agencies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134699INT)
2. **03/21/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134698AMD)
3. **04/11/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134697AMD)
4. **04/25/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134696AMD)
5. **08/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134695AMD)
6. **10/12/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134693CHP)
7. **AB1346** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346)
8. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1346&version=20130AB134694ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1346 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **55–20** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 1346 PAN Assembly Third Reading — **50–21** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1346 Pan By Galgiani — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **3–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-21** Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-25** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 21. Page 1516.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 2101.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 2934.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 774, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c508c4f9-8ab2-489d-82e4-21d17110cb2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).