BILL NUMBER: AB 2041	CHAPTERED  07/08/08

	CHAPTER  72
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 8, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 8, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 26, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2008

   An act to add Sections 31486.36 and 31490.7 to the Government
Code, relating to county employees' retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2041, Fuentes. County employees' retirement: noncontributory
plans: death of member.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 establishes
noncontributory retirement plans for employees in specified counties.
Under existing law, if approved by the county board of supervisors,
members of those plans in the Counties of Los Angeles and Santa
Barbara who have completed at least 5 years of credited service may
elect to purchase retirement service credit.
   This bill would require, with respect to members of the
noncontributory retirement plans in the Counties of Los Angeles and
Santa Barbara, that, upon the death of an active or former member of
the plan, the accumulated contributions made by the member, with
interest, be paid to the member's beneficiaries.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 31486.36 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   31486.36.  Upon the death of an active or former member of the
plan established by this article, an amount equal to the accumulated
contributions made by the member pursuant to this article, with
interest on that amount, shall be paid to the member's beneficiaries.

  SEC. 2.  Section 31490.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   31490.7.  Upon the death of an active or former member of the plan
established by this article, an amount equal to the accumulated
contributions made by the member pursuant to this article, with
interest on that amount, shall be paid to the member's beneficiaries.