BILL NUMBER: SB 752	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wiggins

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 20815 of the Government Code, relating to
public employees' retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 752, as introduced, Wiggins. Public employees' retirement:
Solano County.
   The Public Employees' Retirement Law requires that, after the
implementation of the Trial Court Employment Protection and
Governance Act, for counties contracting with the Board of
Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, a trial
court and a county in which the trial court is located jointly
participate in the retirement system by joint contract. Existing law
also requires the assets and liabilities of a county and a trial
court jointly contracting with the board to be combined for purposes
of setting the employer contribution rate for both the county and the
trial court.
   This bill would create an exception to that requirement for Solano
county, and would require that the assets and liabilities of the
trial court and the county be separated based on a computation as
determined by the actuary retroactive to June 30, 2002. The bill
would also provide that following the separation of the assets and
liabilities, the trial court shall participate in a risk pool, as
specified, regardless of the number of active members in a member
classification.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 20815 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   20815.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part,
including, but not limited to, Sections 20225 and 20790, the board
shall not combine the assets and liabilities of public agency
employers into a single account for the purpose of setting a uniform
rate of employer contributions for all public agency employers. The
rate at which a public employer's contribution to this system shall
be fixed shall be based upon its own experience. Provisions of law
that provide authority for this system to combine the assets and
liabilities of public employers into a single account for purposes of
establishing a uniform rate are superseded to the extent that they
provide that authority. For purposes of this section only, references
to public employers shall not be construed to include school
employers.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),  and except as described
in subdivision (c),  the assets and liabilities of a county and
a trial court jointly contracting with the board under Section
20460.1 shall be combined for purposes of setting the employer
contribution rate for both the county and the trial court. 
   (c) The assets and liabilities of the Solano County trial court
and those of Solano County shall be separated based on a computation
as determined by the actuary retroactive to June 30, 2002. Following
the separation of the assets and liabilities, the Solano County trial
court shall participate in a risk pool created in accordance with
Section 20840 regardless of the number of active members in a member
classification.