BILL NUMBER: SB 304	CHAPTERED  07/03/01

	CHAPTER  33
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 3, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 3, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 27, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 5, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Karnette

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2001

   An act to add Section 31663.1 to the Government Code, relating to
county sheriffs' retirement, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 304, Karnette.  County sheriffs:  mandatory retirement.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to
require specified sheriffs and undersheriffs who are safety members
to be retired at the age of 60 or at the age of 70.
   This bill would, upon approval by the county board of supervisors,
make that requirement inapplicable to specified safety members in
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office whose primary duties are
administrative.
   The bill would declare it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 31663.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   31663.1.  (a) Sections 31662.6 and 31663 shall not apply to an
assistant sheriff or a chief in a sheriff's office who is a safety
member and whose primary duties are administrative.
   (b) This section applies only to a county of the first class, as
defined by Section 28020, as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes
of 1971, and Section 28022, as amended by Chapter 43 of the Statutes
of 1961.
   (c) This section shall not be operative in any county until the
board of supervisors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority vote,
make this section applicable in the county.
  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 enable the County of Los Angeles to retain experienced
personnel in specified positions within the sheriff's department, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.