(1) The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System and the Judges' Retirement System II which provide pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers.
California SB 987 (20112012) — Public employees' retirement.
(1) The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides a defined benefit to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System and the Judges' Retirement System II which provide pension benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state other than judges and to legislative statutory officers.
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2012-01-31 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2012-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2012-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2012-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
2012-03-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2012-03-30 Set for hearing April 9.
2012-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3104.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-04-26 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2012-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2012-05-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 3397.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-05-03 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2012-05-10 Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. referral-committee
2012-06-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-08-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2012-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 1. Page 6122.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2012-08-27 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4845.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 7:30 p.m.
2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 833, Statutes of 2012.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b694542b-e449-44f0-bb5b-8e3818b412dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).