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type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement."
description: "The Public Employees' Retirement Law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to specified public employees. PERS is funded by investment returns and employer and employee contributions. Existing law authorizes a contracting agency and its employees to agree in writing to share the costs of any optional benefit that is inapplicable to a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to the benefit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 197"
citation: "California AB 197 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-01-27"
last_action: "2012-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db92b853-53ee-4242-95d9-f259ce708405"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197"
source_hash: "24111d7139a6d59925eefb493b5d4bb2ef4298b03815e46fddb9b842d744b407"
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 197 (20112012) — Public employees' retirement.
The Public Employees' Retirement Law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to specified public employees. PERS is funded by investment returns and employer and employee contributions. Existing law authorizes a contracting agency and its employees to agree in writing to share the costs of any optional benefit that is inapplicable to a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to the benefit.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/27/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197&version=20110AB19799INT)
2. **06/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197&version=20110AB19798AMD)
3. **07/05/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197&version=20110AB19797AMD)
4. **08/31/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197&version=20110AB19796AMD)
5. **09/12/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197&version=20110AB19794CHP)
6. **AB197** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197)
7. **09/05/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB197&version=20110AB19795ENR)
## Votes
- AB 197 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **734** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **51** (pass) · lower
- AB 197 MONNING Assembly Third Reading — **4822** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **42** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB197 Monning By DeSaulnier — **2411** (pass) · upper
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB197 Buchanan By DeSaulnier — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Buchanan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-01-27** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-28** From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
- **2011-02-10** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 22. Page 1237.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 2170.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-06** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Charles Calderon.
- **2012-06-25** From inactive file.
- **2012-06-25** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2012-06-25** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2012-07-05** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `reading-3, passage`
- **2012-07-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-07-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-07-06** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5057.)
- **2012-08-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-08-31** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-31** (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 5058.)
- **2012-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5063.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6743.)
- **2012-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 4. Page 6743.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
- **2012-09-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 297, Statutes of 2012.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db92b853-53ee-4242-95d9-f259ce708405`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).