republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1309.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment without reinstatement: failure to enroll or report: fee."
description: "The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System, which provides defined benefits to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law permits a retired person to serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by the system if certain conditions are met. If a retired person is employed without reinstatement without meeting those conditions, PERL requires the retired person to reimburse the system for any retirement allowance received and requires both the retired person and the employer to make contributions due and, to the extent each is determined to be at fault, contribute toward reimbursement of the system for administrative expenses incurred. Existing law requires fees and other amounts received by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to PERL to be credited to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1309"
citation: "California AB 1309 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Employment without reinstatement: failure to enroll or report: fee."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6aa791e-11c9-4efc-aff3-c097ba485194"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1309"
source_hash: "0351b2a840fd21b823cf4090bdb4b120b459a47b9127814ef66c2e5b47deac75"
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 1309 (20172018) — Employment without reinstatement: failure to enroll or report: fee.

The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System, which provides defined benefits to its members based on age at retirement, service credit, and final compensation. Existing law permits a retired person to serve without reinstatement from retirement or loss or interruption of benefits provided by the system if certain conditions are met. If a retired person is employed without reinstatement without meeting those conditions, PERL requires the retired person to reimburse the system for any retirement allowance received and requires both the retired person and the employer to make contributions due and, to the extent each is determined to be at fault, contribute toward reimbursement of the system for administrative expenses incurred. Existing law requires fees and other amounts received by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to PERL to be credited to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1309&version=20170AB130999INT)
2. **09/23/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1309&version=20170AB130997CHP)
3. **AB1309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1309)
4. **09/05/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1309&version=20170AB130998ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1309 Cooley By Leyva — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1309 COOLEY Assembly Third Reading — **72–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cooley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-13** Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 5. Page 1475.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2328.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 261, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6aa791e-11c9-4efc-aff3-c097ba485194`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).