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type: "Bill"
title: "County employees' retirement: system personnel."
description: "The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to their employees. CERL authorizes the retirement boards of 5 specified counties to appoint assistant administrators and chief investment officers who, following appointment, are outside county charter, civil service, and merit system rules, except as specified. CERL provides that these administrators and officers are employees of the county, as specified, while serving at the pleasure of the appointing boards, and that they may be dismissed without cause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1270"
citation: "California SB 1270 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County employees' retirement: system personnel."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vidak"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/815cd8f0-efa2-4c13-9757-dae846e5b90e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1270"
source_hash: "a995cb5f1c1af427786bd90994355a3e3c533b77c91e058fe64e2442b31a365f"
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 SB 1270 (20172018) — County employees' retirement: system personnel.
The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to their employees. CERL authorizes the retirement boards of 5 specified counties to appoint assistant administrators and chief investment officers who, following appointment, are outside county charter, civil service, and merit system rules, except as specified. CERL provides that these administrators and officers are employees of the county, as specified, while serving at the pleasure of the appointing boards, and that they may be dismissed without cause.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1270&version=20170SB127099INT)
2. **07/16/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1270&version=20170SB127097CHP)
3. **SB1270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1270)
4. **07/02/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1270&version=20170SB127098ENR)
## Votes
- SB 1270 Vidak Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **60** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Vidak — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4605.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4763.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-17** June 6 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-06-20** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6033.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-28** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2018-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 114, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/815cd8f0-efa2-4c13-9757-dae846e5b90e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).