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type: "Bill"
title: "Public employees' retirement: joint powers agreements: liability."
description: "(1) Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including, among others, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. These systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. Existing law authorizes a contracting agency, as defined, to terminate a contract under the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to specified procedures and authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to terminate a contract with a contracting agency under specified circumstances, including if a contracting agency fails to pay any installment of contributions into the Public Employees' Retirement Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1912"
citation: "California AB 1912 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public employees' retirement: joint powers agreements: liability."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 34
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2018-01-23"
last_action: "2018-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52d2f906-e377-40ec-a8b6-c89f1cd17edc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912"
source_hash: "92a65f208ee355c42b9aefb79dfa830df77dbc6db85393d37be1a9c8e96b6dce"
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 1912 (20172018) — Public employees' retirement: joint powers agreements: liability.
(1) Existing law establishes various public agency retirement systems, including, among others, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System II, and various county retirement systems pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. These systems provide defined pension benefits to public employees based on age, service credit, and amount of final compensation. Existing law authorizes a contracting agency, as defined, to terminate a contract under the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to specified procedures and authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to terminate a contract with a contracting agency under specified circumstances, including if a contracting agency fails to pay any installment of contributions into the Public Employees' Retirement Fund.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/23/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191299INT)
2. **03/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191298AMD)
3. **04/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191297AMD)
4. **05/09/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191296AMD)
5. **06/20/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191295AMD)
6. **07/03/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191294AMD)
7. **08/17/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191293AMD)
8. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191292AMD)
9. **09/29/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191290CHP)
10. **AB1912** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912)
11. **09/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1912&version=20170AB191291ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **50** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **124** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · lower
- AB 1912 RODRIGUEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **5913** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1912 Rodriguez By Portantino — **2710** (pass) · upper
- AB 1912 RODRIGUEZ Assembly Third Reading — **4927** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **31** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-24** From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- **2018-03-15** Referred to Coms. on P.E., R., & S.S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-19** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-10** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 5475.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Coms. on P.E. & R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-06-20** 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. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 6055.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 13.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 909, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/52d2f906-e377-40ec-a8b6-c89f1cd17edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).