republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1971.md

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Bill	County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.	The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension and other benefits to county and district employees. CERL generally vests responsibility for management of a retirement system created pursuant to its provisions in a board of retirement (board) .	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1971	California AB 1971 (20212022)	bill	County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.	enacted	Cooper	7	19	5	2022-02-10	2022-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/3d89ee85-7b35-426e-ba9c-663a356b2afc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1971	782d2c057d2dea28d651267717aeabec43a785b9d0d39b5c195fd74dcc582561	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1971 (20212022) — County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension and other benefits to county and district employees. CERL generally vests responsibility for management of a retirement system created pursuant to its provisions in a board of retirement (board) .

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1971 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 4–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB1971 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1971 Cooper Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1971 Cooper Assembly Third Reading — 62–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2022-02-18 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 5020.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4679.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 5974.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 524, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d89ee85-7b35-426e-ba9c-663a356b2afc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).