---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employees: memorandum of understanding."
description: "State employees: memorandum of understanding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 839"
citation: "California AB 839 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State employees: memorandum of understanding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maldonado"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-24"
last_action: "1999-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45d1cf31-f689-410d-89c0-5df6c2a4cf74"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB839"
source_hash: "02c94d93e3a461925935840f497b39c3400bca60eefadbb60fb0a2ceef65b0fb"
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 839 (19992000) — State employees: memorandum of understanding.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB839&version=19990AB83999INT)
2. **04/15/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB839&version=19990AB83997CHP)
3. **AB839** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB839)
4. **04/12/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB839&version=19990AB83998ENR)

## Votes

- AB 839 MALDONADO 3RD READING URGENCY W/O REFERENCE TO FILE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB839 Maldonado O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 839 DISPENSE W/ 3 READINGS — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 839 DISP 30 DAY PRINT RULE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maldonado — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-04-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 14, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-04-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-04-12** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12 m.
- **1999-04-12** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-04-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. Read second time. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1.) `committee-passage, reading-3, passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-08** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 599.) From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 582.). `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-03-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (March 25). Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 4. Page 802.) `committee-passage, reading-3, passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **1999-03-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-11** Art. IV, Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with and Joint Rule 55 suspended. Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **1999-02-24** 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/45d1cf31-f689-410d-89c0-5df6c2a4cf74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).