republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-821.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement."
description: "Retirement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 821"
citation: "California AB 821 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "1999-02-24"
last_action: "2000-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d41ccbfd-bcdc-4b3a-9c3b-6b9cbbc93569"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821"
source_hash: "56b33fbc52055707d72622ecc12f78d535652d976fb05f287bca5d7f8e30d5fe"
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 821 (19992000) — Retirement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82199INT)
2. **01/10/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82196AMD)
3. **04/13/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82198AMD)
4. **06/14/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82197AMD)
5. **08/31/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82195AMD)
6. **09/30/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82193CHP)
7. **AB821** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821)
8. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB821&version=19990AB82194ENR)

## Votes

- AB 821 P.E., R. & S. THIRD READING BY CORREA — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Supp 2 AB821 Committee on P.E.R.S. & S. (Corre Johnston — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 821 P.E., R. & S. CONCURRENCE BY CORREA — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security — primary (person)
- Johnston — coauthor (person)
- Karnette — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1028, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 51. Noes 20. Page 9044.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2. Page 6482.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.). Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-30** Joint Rule 61(b)(14) suspended. (Page 6338.) Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6338.)
- **2000-08-23** In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.
- **2000-08-22** Joint Rule 61 (b)(14) suspended.
- **2000-01-10** 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`
- **1999-09-08** 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`
- **1999-09-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
- **1999-08-23** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-16** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-07-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-06-14** 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`
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 8. Page 2183.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 6.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-13** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-12** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **1999-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d41ccbfd-bcdc-4b3a-9c3b-6b9cbbc93569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).