Bill Text: CA AB329 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: County employees' retirement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 26, Statutes of 2011. [AB329 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB329-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 329	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 16, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dickinson

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to add Section 31485.18 to the Government Code, relating to
county employees' retirement, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 329, as amended, Dickinson. County employees' retirement.
   Under existing law, counties and districts may provide retirement
benefits to their employees pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL). CERL specifies the minimum ages and
years of service that are required in order to become eligible for
retirement. That law generally permits the board of supervisors of a
county or the governing board of a district, by resolution adopted by
majority vote and pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, as
specified, to make certain formulas for the calculation of benefits
for its members based on their classification.
   This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of the County
of Sacramento, by resolution, adopted by majority vote,  as
part of   if authorized by  a  mutually agreed
upon and  negotiated memorandum of understanding with a
bargaining unit that represents safety members, to require safety
employees of that bargaining unit and unrepresented safety employees,
first hired after approval of the resolution, to receive a specified
pension calculation that applies to safety members and that computes
final compensation based upon the average annual compensation
earnable during a specified 3-year period.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 31485.18 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   31485.18.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, in a county of the eighth class, as defined in Sections
28020 and  28025   28029  , as amended by
Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971, the board of supervisors may,
by resolution adopted by majority vote,  as part of any
  if authorized by a mutually agreed upon and 
negotiated memorandum of understanding with a bargaining unit that
represents safety employees, require a safety employee of that
bargaining unit  first hired after approval of the resolution
 , and may also require an unrepresented safety employee
 ,  first hired after approval of the resolution, to
receive a pension calculation provided in Section 31664.2, with a
highest compensation period determined pursuant to Section 31462, and
with a  cost-of-living-adjustment  
cost-of-living adjustment  provided in Section 31870.
   (b) The resolution described in subdivision (a) may provide a
different formula or calculation of retirement benefits for new
safety members in one bargaining unit or new unrepresented safety
members than that provided for new safety members of other bargaining
units or new unrepresented safety members.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to implement the terms of the negotiated memorandum of
understanding, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.