---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: disability: military leave."
description: "The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 permits a member permanently incapacitated for the performance of duty to be retired for disability regardless of age only if the member's incapacity is a result of injury or disease arising out of, and in the course of, the member's employment, and the employment contributes substantially to the incapacity or the member has complete 5 years of service, as specified. Existing law permits the spouse of a member who dies in service after 5 years of service or as a result of service-connected injury or disease to elect a combined death benefit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1739"
citation: "California AB 1739 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: disability: military leave."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lieu"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2010-02-08"
last_action: "2010-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74267e9d-7767-44ce-8752-1c0ceae3fe7a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1739"
source_hash: "cfca49bc49c3c5f80174298e84013488f618d2cdc0871364439b8d3ea60d801f"
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 1739 (20092010) — County employees' retirement: disability: military leave.

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 permits a member permanently incapacitated for the performance of duty to be retired for disability regardless of age only if the member's incapacity is a result of injury or disease arising out of, and in the course of, the member's employment, and the employment contributes substantially to the incapacity or the member has complete 5 years of service, as specified. Existing law permits the spouse of a member who dies in service after 5 years of service or as a result of service-connected injury or disease to elect a combined death benefit.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1739&version=20090AB173999INT)
2. **07/15/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1739&version=20090AB173997CHP)
3. **AB1739** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1739)
4. **06/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1739&version=20090AB173998ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1739 Lieu By Correa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1739 LIEU Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lieu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2010-02-18** Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5159.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-27** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4092.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-28** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-07-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2010-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 83, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74267e9d-7767-44ce-8752-1c0ceae3fe7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).