BILL NUMBER: AB 1769	CHAPTERED  07/27/05

	CHAPTER  134
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 27, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 27, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 13, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 11, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 11, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 29, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 20, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 14, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 6, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Negrete McLeod
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Runner)

                        APRIL 4, 2005

   An act to add and repeal Section 31663.2 of the Government Code,
relating to county employees' retirement, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1769, Negrete McLeod  County employees' retirement.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to
require specified safety members, except certain elective officers,
sheriffs, undersheriffs, and court marshals, to be retired at 60 or
70 years of age.
   This bill would, until April 1, 2009, and upon approval by the
county board of supervisors, make those requirements inapplicable to
the fire chief of a fire district in Los Angeles County whose primary
duties are administrative and who is employed on a specified date.
The bill would also specify that the fire chief is prohibited from
receiving a salary increase that is disproportionate to any salary
increase granted to other department heads of the same jurisdiction
at the same time.
  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 31663.2 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   31663.2.  (a) (1) Sections 31662.4 and 31662.6 shall not apply to
the fire chief of a fire district who is a safety member and whose
primary duties are administrative, if the fire chief was employed as
fire chief on May 1, 2005.
   (2) A fire chief who is exempted from the requirements of Sections
31662.4 and 31662.6, pursuant to paragraph (1), shall retire before
April 1, 2009, and, subsequent to the operative date of this section,
that fire chief shall not receive a salary increase that is
disproportionate to any salary increase granted to other department
heads of the same jurisdiction at the same time.
   (b) This section applies only to a county of the first class, as
defined by Sections 28020 and 28022.
   (c) This section shall not be operative in any county until the
board of supervisors, by resolution adopted by a majority vote, makes
this section applicable in the county.
  (d) This section shall become inoperative on April 1, 2009, and, as
of January 1, 2010, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before January 1, 2010, deletes or extends the dates
on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  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 maintain public safety, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately.