republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2301.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sacramento Area Sewer District Pension Protection Act of 2024."
description: "Existing law, the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, authorizes a county to establish a retirement system, as specified, in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. Under that law, all officers and employees of a district become members of the county's retirement association on the first day of the calendar month after adoption, by specified vote thresholds, of a resolution by the governing body of the district providing for inclusion of the district in the retirement association and, if the county board of supervisors is not the governing body of the district, the board of retirement consents by majority vote."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2301"
citation: "California AB 2301 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sacramento Area Sewer District Pension Protection Act of 2024"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephanie Nguyen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dabc8e4e-8ffa-4e46-81d6-140ed63852c7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2301"
source_hash: "b658437407c83c73fefaea9316d99f6a6c96bea3ca280ff2120c11d6cf4bc279"
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 2301 (20232024) — Sacramento Area Sewer District Pension Protection Act of 2024.

Existing law, the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, authorizes a county to establish a retirement system, as specified, in order to provide pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. Under that law, all officers and employees of a district become members of the county's retirement association on the first day of the calendar month after adoption, by specified vote thresholds, of a resolution by the governing body of the district providing for inclusion of the district in the retirement association and, if the county board of supervisors is not the governing body of the district, the board of retirement consents by majority vote.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2301&version=20230AB230199INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2301&version=20230AB230198AMD)
3. **07/02/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2301&version=20230AB230196CHP)
4. **AB2301** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2301)
5. **06/18/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2301&version=20230AB230197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2301 Stephanie Nguyen et Urgency Clause — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2301 Stephanie Nguyen Third Reading Urgency — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stephanie Nguyen — primary (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Niello — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E. & R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-04-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-11** From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Essayli. To Third Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4779.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-13** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4490.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-07-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, 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/dabc8e4e-8ffa-4e46-81d6-140ed63852c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).