republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-853.md

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Bill	Public employees' retirement.	(1) Existing law, the Teachers' Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. STRS is administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. Existing law requires employers and employees to make contributions to the system based on the member's creditable compensation. Existing law defines terms for the purposes of STRS.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 853	California SB 853 (20252026)	bill	Publicemployees'retirement	enacted	Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement	7	29	6	2025-03-04	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e019c5de-8224-4fe9-8aa6-234dab32d0a5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB853	ab0cd39999aad94f407bf44aa6dca3862d99b0f81d362177c13b1718f9eeb0a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 853 (20252026) — Public employees' retirement.

(1) Existing law, the Teachers' Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, creditable service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. STRS is administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. Existing law requires employers and employees to make contributions to the system based on the member's creditable compensation. Existing law defines terms for the purposes of STRS.

Version chain

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

1. 03/04/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB853 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB853 L., P.E. & R. (Smallwood-Cuevas) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 853 Labor, Public Employment Senate Third Reading By McKINNOR — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB853 L., P.E. & R. (Smallwood-Cuevas) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-04 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-05 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 4.
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 740.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2025-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2025-04-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-28 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 984.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-05-19 Referred to Com. on P. E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-07 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.
• 2025-07-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-07-15 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 2816.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2928.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 239, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e019c5de-8224-4fe9-8aa6-234dab32d0a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).