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type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: survivor's allowances."
description: "The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes a county to provide specified optional survivor's allowances to members who receive retirement benefits pursuant to both CERL and federal social security on a nonintegrated basis. CERL provides that these survivor's allowances shall be calculated according to one of 2 alternative methods."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1355"
citation: "California AB 1355 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: survivor's allowances."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fong"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2009-02-27"
last_action: "2009-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3be0153c-0714-4e9e-bde8-b8de1ba00140"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1355"
source_hash: "2c1eb6885cce559b0fd03ea286644158eb545c35837e01144622cd575215522c"
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 1355 (20092010) — County employees' retirement: survivor's allowances.
The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes a county to provide specified optional survivor's allowances to members who receive retirement benefits pursuant to both CERL and federal social security on a nonintegrated basis. CERL provides that these survivor's allowances shall be calculated according to one of 2 alternative methods.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/27/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1355&version=20090AB135599INT)
2. **04/21/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1355&version=20090AB135598AMD)
3. **06/29/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1355&version=20090AB135596CHP)
4. **AB1355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1355)
5. **06/12/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1355&version=20090AB135597ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1355 FONG Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1355 Fong — **pass** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Fong — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2009-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2009-03-31** Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-21** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-07** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1466.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-09** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1268.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-06-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2009-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 9, Statutes of 2009.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3be0153c-0714-4e9e-bde8-b8de1ba00140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).