republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-84.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public employment and retirement."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Teachers' Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program. The Defined Benefit Program is funded by employer and employee contributions, investment returns, and state appropriations, which are deposited or credited to the Teachers' Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated. Existing law appropriates $2,246,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2018–19 fiscal year to the Teachers' Retirement Fund for the Defined Benefit Program, to be apportioned in specified amounts to the credit of required employer contributions for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 fiscal years, pursuant to the direction of the Department of Finance. For the 2020–21 fiscal year, the apportioned payment to the Teachers' Retirement Fund is an amount to pay in advance a part of the contributions required of the employers for the 2020–21 fiscal year that results in a reduction of employer contributions of 0.70 percentage point for that fiscal year from the percentage set by another specified provision. Existing law requires the uncommitted remainder of the payment to be allocated to reducing the employers' unfunded actuarial obligations, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 84"
citation: "California AB 84 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public employment and retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2020-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13352af3-2156-4ae6-867a-369f4938659a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84"
source_hash: "e24b48c0a2894424d555d570373e3404f9aea1fb5bf16a6d6029d6c5a2f19468"
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 84 (20192020) — Public employment and retirement.

(1) Existing law, the Teachers' Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program. The Defined Benefit Program is funded by employer and employee contributions, investment returns, and state appropriations, which are deposited or credited to the Teachers' Retirement Fund, which is continuously appropriated. Existing law appropriates $2,246,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2018–19 fiscal year to the Teachers' Retirement Fund for the Defined Benefit Program, to be apportioned in specified amounts to the credit of required employer contributions for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 fiscal years, pursuant to the direction of the Department of Finance. For the 2020–21 fiscal year, the apportioned payment to the Teachers' Retirement Fund is an amount to pay in advance a part of the contributions required of the employers for the 2020–21 fiscal year that results in a reduction of employer contributions of 0.70 percentage point for that fiscal year from the percentage set by another specified provision. Existing law requires the uncommitted remainder of the payment to be allocated to reducing the employers' unfunded actuarial obligations, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84&version=20190AB8499INT)
2. **06/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84&version=20190AB8498AMD)
3. **06/22/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84&version=20190AB8497AMD)
4. **06/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84&version=20190AB8495CHP)
5. **AB84** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84)
6. **06/26/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB84&version=20190AB8496ENR)

## Votes

- AB 84 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB84 BUDGET — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB84 BUDGET — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 84 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **58–16** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB84 BUDGET (Ting) Reconsider — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **13–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
- **2019-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1169.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-26** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 3857.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3860.)
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2020-06-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 4954.)
- **2020-06-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 4970.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6:30 p.m.
- **2020-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 16, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13352af3-2156-4ae6-867a-369f4938659a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).