Bill Text: CA AB785 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Employees' Retirement System: Board of

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB785 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB785-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 785	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to add Section 20140 to the Government Code, relating to
the Public Employees' Retirement System, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 785, as introduced, Weber. Public Employees' Retirement System:
Board of Administration: direct mailing assistance.
   Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System,
which is governed by its Board of Administration. Existing law
establishes the powers and duties of the board and generally requires
that the board and its officers and employees discharge their duties
with respect to the system solely in the interest of the participant
and beneficiaries. Existing law creates the Public Employees'
Retirement Fund, a trust fund that is continuously appropriated
solely for the benefit of the members, annuitants, and their
survivors and beneficiaries.
   This bill would authorize an organization that provides employee
representation or membership services to annuitants of the system to
submit a request to the board for assistance in performing direct
mailing, subject to specified requirements. The bill would require
the board, upon receiving a request, to provide a direct mailing to
the annuitants of the system who are members of the organization or
eligible to become members of the organization. The bill would
require the organization to provide the board with copies of all
materials that will be included in the direct mailing. The bill would
require the organization requesting the direct mailing to pay all
reasonable expenses of the mailing. By authorizing continuously
appropriated funds to be used for a new purpose, this bill would make
an appropriation. The bill would also make a statement of
legislative findings and declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that, in the
interest of administering the Public Employees' Retirement System in
a manner that will assure prompt delivery of benefits and related
services to the participants and their beneficiaries, the Board of
Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall
provide assistance to organizations that provide employee
representation or membership services to annuitants of the system as
required by the provisions of this act.
  SEC. 2.  Section 20140 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   20140.  (a) An organization that provides employee representation
or membership services to annuitants of the system may submit a
request to the board for assistance in performing direct mailings to
annuitants of the system who are members of the organization or
eligible to become members of the organization. Upon receiving a
request, the board shall provide a direct mailing to the annuitants
of the system who are members of the organization or eligible to
become members of the organization, subject to the requirements of
this section. The organization shall provide the board with copies of
all materials that will be included in the direct mailing.
   (b) The direct mailings authorized in subdivision (a) may be for
any lawful purpose other than the supporting or opposing any
political party, ballot measure, or candidate in any election,
including any election within the organization. The board shall
provide the data for addressing envelopes for the direct mailing only
to a mail processing center mutually agreed upon by the board and
the organization making the request under a secure data sharing
agreement with the mail processing center under which neither the
organization nor any other entity shall have direct access to any
names or addresses. The board shall not be required to notify an
annuitant whose data is released to a mail processing center in
connection with a direct mailing made pursuant to these provisions.
   (c) The organization requesting the direct mailing shall pay any
and all reasonable expenses of the mailing.