republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-868.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State teachers' retirement: supplemental benefits."
description: "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, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. STRS is administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. Existing law creates the Teachers' Retirement Fund and establishes within that fund a segregated account named the Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account. Existing law continuously appropriates funds in the Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account for expenditure for the purpose of restoring the purchasing power of the allowances of retired members and nonmember spouses, disabled members, and beneficiaries, and prescribes various schedules pursuant to which these allowances are augmented."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 868"
citation: "California SB 868 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State teachers' retirement: supplemental benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d60aa57-28d1-4fdf-a1ba-35ac67d22af2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868"
source_hash: "b30a91d4adda59b222688757c79115f048f6aa8c1bc676dedf18ddccaa55bdad"
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 SB 868 (20212022) — State teachers' retirement: supplemental benefits.

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, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. STRS is administered by the Teachers' Retirement Board. Existing law creates the Teachers' Retirement Fund and establishes within that fund a segregated account named the Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account. Existing law continuously appropriates funds in the Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account for expenditure for the purpose of restoring the purchasing power of the allowances of retired members and nonmember spouses, disabled members, and beneficiaries, and prescribes various schedules pursuant to which these allowances are augmented.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/24/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868&version=20210SB86899INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868&version=20210SB86898AMD)
3. **04/18/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868&version=20210SB86897AMD)
4. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868&version=20210SB86895CHP)
5. **SB868** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868)
6. **08/22/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB868&version=20210SB86896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 868 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Cooper — **62–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB868 Cortese et al. — **29–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cortese — primary (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
- **2022-02-02** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-03-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Set for hearing April 4.
- **2022-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3309.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** 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`
- **2022-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2022-05-09** May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3772.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 2. Page 3834.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-03** August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 2. Page 5933.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2022-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 818, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d60aa57-28d1-4fdf-a1ba-35ac67d22af2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).