republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2376.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: Los Angeles County."
description: "The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) establishes retirement plans, known as Retirement Plan D and Retirement Plan E, that are applicable in the retirement system in Los Angeles County and prescribes procedures for members to transfer between those plans. CERL defines \"Retirement Plan E\" to mean the noncontributory retirement plan established by specific provisions, and defines \"Retirement Plan D\" to mean the contributory retirement plan otherwise available to new members of the retirement system on the transfer date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2376"
citation: "California AB 2376 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: Los Angeles County."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f0914b3-a2f9-40e5-bbc2-2ac7f38879eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376"
source_hash: "df05040348b426f7a1505e95d023673f744e4c1835867bc68490f33b9001c66c"
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 2376 (20152016) — County employees' retirement: Los Angeles County.

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) establishes retirement plans, known as Retirement Plan D and Retirement Plan E, that are applicable in the retirement system in Los Angeles County and prescribes procedures for members to transfer between those plans. CERL defines "Retirement Plan E" to mean the noncontributory retirement plan established by specific provisions, and defines "Retirement Plan D" to mean the contributory retirement plan otherwise available to new members of the retirement system on the transfer date.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376&version=20150AB237699INT)
2. **03/09/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376&version=20150AB237698AMD)
3. **06/20/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376&version=20150AB237697AMD)
4. **08/17/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376&version=20150AB237695CHP)
5. **AB2376** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376)
6. **08/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2376&version=20150AB237696ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2376 Committee on Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2376 BONILLA Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2376 P.E., R. & S.S. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BONTA — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement, and Social Security — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2016-03-08** Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4785.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-19** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-06-20** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4652.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5638.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2016-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 134, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f0914b3-a2f9-40e5-bbc2-2ac7f38879eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).