---
type: "Bill"
title: "County retirement boards: alternate members."
description: "The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 sets forth the membership composition requirements for the board of retirement of counties subject to certain provisions regarding safety members. The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th members are required to be qualified electors of the county who are not connected with the government, except that one may be a member of the county board of supervisors. Existing law authorizes a retirement board, in a county of the 9th class, to appoint an alternate member for the 4th, 5th, 6th, or 9th member of the board, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 663"
citation: "California AB 663 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County retirement boards: alternate members."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdece7fe-d596-448f-bedc-6b76c0f63718"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB663"
source_hash: "bfdf4f95e13504d956ecd4ffb791aaac7610447a4bb7ecf7c9e9c4427816acf0"
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 663 (20152016) — County retirement boards: alternate members.

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 sets forth the membership composition requirements for the board of retirement of counties subject to certain provisions regarding safety members. The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th members are required to be qualified electors of the county who are not connected with the government, except that one may be a member of the county board of supervisors. Existing law authorizes a retirement board, in a county of the 9th class, to appoint an alternate member for the 4th, 5th, 6th, or 9th member of the board, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB663&version=20150AB66399INT)
2. **07/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB663&version=20150AB66397CHP)
3. **AB663** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB663)
4. **06/19/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB663&version=20150AB66398ENR)

## Votes

- AB 663 IRWIN Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Irwin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2015-03-09** Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1446.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1490.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-06-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2015-07-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 38, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fdece7fe-d596-448f-bedc-6b76c0f63718`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).