republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-284.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of San Juan Capistrano: public employee pension benefits."
description: "The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its pension plan or plans to comply with the act and, among other things, prohibits a public employer that offers a defined benefit pension plan from exceeding specified retirement formulas for new members, as defined. PEPRA permits a public employer to adopt a new defined benefit formula, on or after January 1, 2013, that is not consistent with PEPRA, if that formula is determined and certified by the chief actuary and the board of that employer's retirement system to not have a greater risk or greater cost to the sponsoring employer than the defined benefit formula required by PEPRA and the plan is approved by the Legislature."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 284"
citation: "California AB 284 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City of San Juan Capistrano: public employee pension benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brough"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23dda516-5e9d-4ed0-a1bd-44c905ff284e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB284"
source_hash: "0592ff67ba799d4ad1c3ad149aae54fd3629fbc98d14f8c73c1f23bd5da64082"
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 284 (20152016) — City of San Juan Capistrano: public employee pension benefits.

The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its pension plan or plans to comply with the act and, among other things, prohibits a public employer that offers a defined benefit pension plan from exceeding specified retirement formulas for new members, as defined. PEPRA permits a public employer to adopt a new defined benefit formula, on or after January 1, 2013, that is not consistent with PEPRA, if that formula is determined and certified by the chief actuary and the board of that employer's retirement system to not have a greater risk or greater cost to the sponsoring employer than the defined benefit formula required by PEPRA and the plan is approved by the Legislature.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB284&version=20150AB28499INT)
2. **06/03/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB284&version=20150AB28498AMD)
3. **07/13/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB284&version=20150AB28496CHP)
4. **AB284** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB284)
5. **06/29/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB284&version=20150AB28497ENR)

## Votes

- AB 284 BROUGH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 284 BROUGH Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brough — primary (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2015-02-23** Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1446.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-03** 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`
- **2015-06-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1490.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-06-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2139.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2015-07-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 66, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23dda516-5e9d-4ed0-a1bd-44c905ff284e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).