republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2474.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement: County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: benefit payments and overpayments."
description: "(1) The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties and districts to establish retirement systems in order to provide pension benefits to their employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights, benefits, and duties of members in this regard. CERL defines compensation and compensation earnable for purposes of its provisions. Existing law, the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) , prescribed various limitations on public employees, employers, and retirement systems concerning, among other things, the types of remuneration that may be included in compensation that is applied to pensions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2474"
citation: "California AB 2474 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Employees Retirement Law of 1937", "Retirement", "benefit payments and overpayments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/021f3bf6-33d4-4c4b-bceb-33e377b929fe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474"
source_hash: "455ae96c46c727850b2c678935b5f4992374e04cd5ff818cf460b6b1f968eb7f"
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 2474 (20232024) — Retirement: County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: benefit payments and overpayments.

(1) The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties and districts to establish retirement systems in order to provide pension benefits to their employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights, benefits, and duties of members in this regard. CERL defines compensation and compensation earnable for purposes of its provisions. Existing law, the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) , prescribed various limitations on public employees, employers, and retirement systems concerning, among other things, the types of remuneration that may be included in compensation that is applied to pensions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474&version=20230AB247499INT)
2. **04/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474&version=20230AB247498AMD)
3. **05/28/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474&version=20230AB247497AMD)
4. **06/13/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474&version=20230AB247496AMD)
5. **07/15/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474&version=20230AB247494CHP)
6. **AB2474** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474)
7. **07/01/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2474&version=20230AB247495ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2474 Lackey Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2474 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lackey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-04-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5000.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-08** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-28** 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`
- **2024-06-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-06-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-06-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2624.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6076.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2024-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 108, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/021f3bf6-33d4-4c4b-bceb-33e377b929fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).