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Bill	Public employees' retirement.	The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation. Under the Public Employees' Retirement Law, members may elect to receive service credit for various types of public service, and this election is effective only if an appropriate payment, or authorization for payment, of the contributions and interest required for the credit is made. That law calculates retirement benefits, in part, based on years of creditable service and authorizes a member to receive additional service credits, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1856	California AB 1856 (20092010)	bill	Public employees' retirement.	enacted	Fong	6	25	7	2010-02-12	2010-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8bca54f2-f34e-499a-9d00-93c1e017ed5a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1856	9e925415dae33c5e9e783f5c772d3d1dd342e274e00d9069be76c47e9c8cc0d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1856 (20092010) — Public employees' retirement.

The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides a comprehensive set of rights and benefits based upon age, service credit, and final compensation. Under the Public Employees' Retirement Law, members may elect to receive service credit for various types of public service, and this election is effective only if an appropriate payment, or authorization for payment, of the contributions and interest required for the credit is made. That law calculates retirement benefits, in part, based on years of creditable service and authorizes a member to receive additional service credits, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/07/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1856 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/12/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1856 FONG Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1856 FONG Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #29 AB1856 Fong — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fong — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2010-03-25 Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2010-03-25 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
• 2010-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2010-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-10 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-13 From Consent Calendar.
• 2010-05-13 Ordered to third reading.
• 2010-05-13 Ordered returned to second day Consent Calendar by unanimous consent.
• 2010-05-17 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5198.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-17 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
• 2010-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-30 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-30 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2010-07-01 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4201.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-07-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6079.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-16 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
• 2010-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 197, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8bca54f2-f34e-499a-9d00-93c1e017ed5a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).