BILL NUMBER: AB 1658	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 1, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lieu

                        JANUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 31639.7 of the Government Code, relating
to public retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1658, as amended, Lieu. County employees' retirement: service
credit: safety members.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes a member of
that system who becomes a safety member by operation of a specified
law to receive service credit, as a safety member, for duties
performed, prior to the change in law, which, under current law
constitutes service as a safety member. Existing law requires a
member that elects to receive the service credit to pay an amount
equal to the contributions the member would have made for that
service, plus interest.
   This bill would authorize specified members in the County of Los
Angeles that become safety members by operation of a specified
consolidation of departments within that county to receive service
credit, as a safety member, for duties performed as an officer prior
to the consolidation. This bill would require a member that elects to
receive the service credit to pay an amount equal to the
contributions  ,   together with the regular interest
 the member would have made for that service  , either 
by a lump sum payment or by installment payments.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 31639.7 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   31639.7.  (a) If a member not previously within the field of
membership as a safety member is brought within such field of safety
membership by amendment to this chapter, he  or she  may
receive credit as a safety member for all or any part of the time
during which his  or her  duties would have made him  or
her  eligible to become a safety member if  such
  the  amendment had then been in effect by filing
with the board at the time he  or she  elects to become a
safety member his  or her  election to pay into the
retirement fund an amount equal to the difference between the
contributions actually made during the time for which he  or she
 claims credit and the contributions he  or she  would
have made during  such   that  time,
including all additional contributions, if any, required by Article
7.5 of this chapter, had he  or she  been a safety member,
together with regular interest on the amount required to be
deposited.
   (b) If a member not previously within the field of membership as a
Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff is brought into that field of
membership by a consolidation of the Los Angeles County Office of
Public Safety with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, that
member may receive additional credit as a safety member for all or
any part of the time that member served as an officer with the Los
Angeles County Office of Public Safety if that member makes an
election to fund an amount equal to the difference  between
the contributions the member actually made during the time for which
the member claims the credit and the contributions that the member
would have made during that same period of time.  
between the member and employer contributions actually made as a
general member and the member and employer contributions made for the
time in which he or she claims credit, together with regular
interest on the amount required to be deposited.  The member may
elect to fund the contributions by either a lump sum payment or by
installment payments. No other restrictions shall be placed on a
member's election to receive additional credit as authorized by this
subdivision.