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Bill	Judges' Retirement System II: benefits.	Existing law establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides retirement and other benefits to its members and is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System. Under the Judges' Retirement System II, a judge is eligible to retire upon attaining both 65 years of age and 20 or more years of service, or upon attaining 70 years of age with a minimum of 5 years of service. Existing law entitles a judge who retires pursuant to this authorization to elect between a specified a monthly retirement allowance for life or certain monetary credits. Existing law grants the surviving spouse of a judge who was eligible to retire, as specified, the right to elect to receive either a monthly retirement allowance or monetary credits within 90 days after the judge's death. Existing law establishes the right of the surviving spouse of a retired judge who elected to receive a monthly allowance, or who was retired for disability and receiving an allowance, to a specified monthly allowance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2443	California AB 2443 (20212022)	bill appropriation	Judges' Retirement System II: benefits.	enacted	Cooley	8	29	9	2022-02-17	2022-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b2497868-e618-4ed6-95f6-7d8d9f8c3c40	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2443	330b605d3f92cebc31ebe84e9ac47038302fb57fffbf901b04893dc39970580c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2443 (20212022) — Judges' Retirement System II: benefits.

Existing law establishes the Judges' Retirement System II, which provides retirement and other benefits to its members and is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System. Under the Judges' Retirement System II, a judge is eligible to retire upon attaining both 65 years of age and 20 or more years of service, or upon attaining 70 years of age with a minimum of 5 years of service. Existing law entitles a judge who retires pursuant to this authorization to elect between a specified a monthly retirement allowance for life or certain monetary credits. Existing law grants the surviving spouse of a judge who was eligible to retire, as specified, the right to elect to receive either a monthly retirement allowance or monetary credits within 90 days after the judge's death. Existing law establishes the right of the surviving spouse of a retired judge who elected to receive a monthly allowance, or who was retired for disability and receiving an allowance, to a specified monthly allowance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2443 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2443 Cooley By Cortese — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2443 Cooley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2443 Cooley Consent Calendar Second Day — 61–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 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
• 2022-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 4581.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-18 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-07-20 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2022-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2497868-e618-4ed6-95f6-7d8d9f8c3c40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).