Joan Buchanan
- Democratic
Author
The Public Employees' Retirement Law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pension benefits to specified public employees. PERS is funded by investment returns and employer and employee contributions. Existing law authorizes a contracting agency and its employees to agree in writing to share the costs of any optional benefit that is inapplicable to a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to the benefit. This bill would instead authorize a contracting agency and its employees to agree in writing to share the costs of the employer contribution with or without a change in benefits, as specified. The bill would prohibit an employer from using impasse procedures to impose member cost sharing on any contribution amount above that which is authorized by law. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties and districts, as defined, to provide a system of retirement benefits to their employees. CERL defines compensation earnable for the purpose of calculating benefits as the average compensation for the period under consideration with respect to the average number of days ordinarily worked by persons in the same grade or class of positions during the period, and at the same rate of pay, as determined by the retirement board. This bill would exclude from the definition of compensation earnable any compensation determined by the board to have been paid to enhance a member's retirement benefit. The bill would also exclude various payments from the definition of compensation earnable, including payments for unused vacation, annual leave, personal leave, sick leave, and compensatory time off, as well as payments made at the termination of employment, except what may be earned and payable in each 12-month period during the final average salary period.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 297, Statutes of 2012.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5063.).
(Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 5058.)
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 4. Page 6743.).
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6743.)
Ordered to third reading.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5057.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c).
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
In Senate. Held at Desk.
From inactive file.
Ordered to the Senate.
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Charles Calderon.
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 2170.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 8).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 22. Page 1237.)
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 13).
From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB197 | HTML |
| 01/27/11 - Introduced | |
| 06/02/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/05/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/31/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/05/12 - Enrolled | |
| 09/12/12 - Chaptered |
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