republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-2621.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preretirement death benefits."
description: "Preretirement death benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2621"
citation: "California AB 2621 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Preretirement death benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rod Pacheco"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf282f41-9630-48e8-9d5b-84a00d140319"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621"
source_hash: "218bf3fcf847252ddd52733689dbdbc26946ea3a18ccbe1094f29ff9a35b18b5"
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 2621 (19992000) — Preretirement death benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621&version=19990AB262199INT)
2. **06/19/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621&version=19990AB262198AMD)
3. **08/07/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621&version=19990AB262197AMD)
4. **09/30/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621&version=19990AB262195CHP)
5. **AB2621** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621)
6. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2621&version=19990AB262196ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2621 ROD PACHECO SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2621 Rod Pacheco By McPherson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rod Pacheco — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1031, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 9033.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-08-29** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6210.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-22** Joint Rule 61 (b)(14) suspended.
- **2000-08-07** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2000-08-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-27** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 6187.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-01** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-04-12** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2000-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2000-02-25** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf282f41-9630-48e8-9d5b-84a00d140319`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).