---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement: local sheriffs."
description: "Public employees' retirement: local sheriffs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 179"
citation: "California AB 179 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement: local sheriffs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2001-02-06"
last_action: "2001-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f4ae120-4860-4ff6-8c41-0323305d57a4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB179"
source_hash: "9a70ff89aeb91d7a8266828112dae6c3c765cbbbae848be2e7332c0869900b6d"
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 179 (20012002) — Public employees' retirement: local sheriffs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB179&version=20010AB17999INT)
2. **04/23/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB179&version=20010AB17998AMD)
3. **08/06/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB179&version=20010AB17996CHP)
4. **AB179** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB179)
5. **07/19/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB179&version=20010AB17997ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB179 Shelley By Romero — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 179 Shelley Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 149, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-08-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2001-07-19** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2001-07-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 8. Page 2120.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-07-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-05-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1531.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-26** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-23** 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-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-02-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2001-02-06** 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/5f4ae120-4860-4ff6-8c41-0323305d57a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).