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type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement."
description: "The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) provides for the preservation of the purchasing power of benefits through a system of adjustments in benefits based on changes in living costs. Existing law also establishes provisions to ensure the federal tax-exempt status of the system and to preserve the deferred treatment of federal income tax on public employer contributions to public employee pensions. Existing federal law limits the amount a defined benefit plan may pay a participant annually, and requires that this limitation be adjusted annually by regulation to account for increases in the cost of living."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 322"
citation: "California SB 322 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Negrete McLeod"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-14"
last_action: "2011-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4be0b3ef-6430-400a-8833-e346fed6b06f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB322"
source_hash: "5673b1b574985a1b32555066fb604409f94b63a8b159e24fa6b98a01c4e52204"
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 SB 322 (20112012) — Retirement.
The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) provides for the preservation of the purchasing power of benefits through a system of adjustments in benefits based on changes in living costs. Existing law also establishes provisions to ensure the federal tax-exempt status of the system and to preserve the deferred treatment of federal income tax on public employer contributions to public employee pensions. Existing federal law limits the amount a defined benefit plan may pay a participant annually, and requires that this limitation be adjusted annually by regulation to account for increases in the cost of living.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB322&version=20110SB32299INT)
2. **07/01/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB322&version=20110SB32297CHP)
3. **SB322** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB322)
4. **06/17/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB322&version=20110SB32298ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **60** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **50** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB322 Negrete McLeod — **340** (pass) · upper
- SB 322 Negrete McLeod Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Negrete McLeod — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-15** Set for hearing March 21.
- **2011-03-22** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 416.) (March 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 458.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-03-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-04-28** Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1959.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-16** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2011-06-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2011-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 47, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4be0b3ef-6430-400a-8833-e346fed6b06f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).