Bill Text: CA SB1142 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employee benefits: postemployment health care

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 3. Page 3208.) Reconsideration granted. [SB1142 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1142-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1142	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to add Section 7507.1 to the Government Code, relating to
public employee benefits.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1142, as introduced, Walters. Public employee benefits:
postemployment health care benefits.
   The Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA),
which is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public
Employees' Retirement System, establishes provisions governing
postemployment health care benefits for members and their families,
upon meeting vesting requirements and subject to various limitations.
That law permits a contracting agency to be subject to the act for
its employees and annuitants, upon meeting specified criteria.
Existing law also establishes various postemployment health care
benefits under other benefit systems, including those offered by
counties, districts, and cities.
   This bill would prohibit a public employer, as defined, for
employees first hired on or after January 1, 2013, from providing
postemployment health care benefits on behalf of its employees unless
it fully funds those benefits, as determined by an actuary.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 7507.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   7507.1.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for employees first
hired on or after January 1, 2013, a public employer shall not
provide postemployment health care benefits on behalf of its
employees, unless it fully funds these benefits, as determined by an
actuary.
   (b) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

   (1) "Public employee" means an officer, including those elected or
appointed, or an employee of a public employer.
   (2) "Public employer" means:
   (A) The state and every state entity, including, but not limited
to, the Legislature, the courts, and the California State University,
but excluding the University of California.
   (B) Any political subdivision of the state, including, but not
limited to, a city, county, city and county, school district,
community college district, joint powers authority, joint powers
agency, and any public agency, authority, board, commission,
district, or other entity, but excluding a charter city or charter
county.