BILL NUMBER: AB 1355	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 11, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 14, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fong

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Sections 31855.5, 31855.6, 31855.7, and 31855.9 of
the Government Code, relating to county employees' retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1355, Fong. County employees' retirement: survivor's
allowances.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes a
county to provide specified optional survivor's allowances to members
who receive retirement benefits pursuant to both CERL and federal
social security on a nonintegrated basis. CERL provides that these
survivor's allowances shall be calculated according to one of 2
alternative methods.
   This bill would appropriately cross-reference an alternative
method of calculating survivor's allowances, as described above. The
bill would also make technical changes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 31855.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   31855.5.  Upon the death of a member prior to retirement who was a
member continuously for not less than 18 months immediately prior to
the member's death, the member's surviving spouse shall be paid a
monthly survivor's allowance equal to the sum, based upon the
appropriate factual circumstances, specified in Section 31855.8 or
31855.12.
  SEC. 2.  Section 31855.6 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   31855.6.  Upon the death of a member prior to retirement who was a
member continuously for not less than 18 months immediately prior to
the member's death and who is survived by one or more children but
no surviving spouse, the child or children shall be entitled to a
monthly survivor's allowance as specified in Section 31855.8 or
31855.12. The monthly survivor's allowance of two or more children
shall be divided equally as to those children.
  SEC. 3.  Section 31855.7 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   31855.7.  Upon the death of a member prior to retirement who was a
member continuously for not less than 18 months immediately prior to
the member's death, the member's surviving parent or parents shall
be entitled to a monthly survivor's allowance as specified in Section
31855.8 or 31855.12.
  SEC. 4.  Section 31855.9 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   31855.9.  Upon the death of a member prior to retirement who was a
member continuously for not less than 18 months immediately prior to
his death who is survived by a spouse with whom the member was
living at the time of death, the retirement system shall pay to the
surviving spouse, in addition to all other payments due, if any, a
lump sum supplemental survivorship benefit of two hundred fifty-five
dollars ($255), as set forth in Section 31855.8 or 31855.12. If the
member is not survived by a spouse with whom the member was living,
the retirement system shall apply a lump sum supplemental
survivorship benefit to reimburse the person who paid the funeral
expenses of the member in an amount not to exceed two hundred
fifty-five dollars ($255).