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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 987
Author: Negrete McLeod (D)
Amended: 3/29/12
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC EMPLOY. & RETIREMENT COMM. : 3-0, 4/9/12
AYES: Negrete McLeod, Gaines, Vargas
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Padilla
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT : Public employees retirement: annual
housekeeping
legislation
SOURCE : California Public Employees Retirement System,
Board of
Administration
DIGEST : This bill makes various technical and
non-controversial changes to various sections of the
Government Code administered by the California Public
Employees Retirement Board, including code sections
governing the California Public Employees' Retirement
System (CalPERS), the Judges' Retirement Systems I and II
(JRS I and JRS II) and the Legislators' Retirement System
(LRS).
ANALYSIS :
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Existing law:
1. Allows individuals to file a Declaration of Domestic
Partnership with the Secretary of State and requires
that registered domestic partners shall have the same
rights, protections, and benefits as are granted to and
imposed upon spouses.
2. Allows a public employee to be absent from service on
employer-approved leave for an industrial illness or
injury and to receive temporary disability payments
during the absence.
3. Allows a CalPERS member who has been on uncompensated,
employer-approved leave for a personal illness or injury
to purchase service credit in the CalPERS system
equivalent to the time spent on leave. In such cases the
employee pays the entire cost (i.e., employer and
employee contributions) of the service credit.
This bill:
1. Clarifies that references to "spouse," "surviving
spouse," and "marriage" in the laws governing CalPERS,
JRS I and II, and LRS apply equally to a registered
domestic partner, or partnership, to the extent provided
by the domestic partnership provisions in the Family
Code.
2. Clarifies the definition of an industrial "leave of
absence" to include leave for an industrial illness or
injury.
3. Clarifies that members are able to purchase service
credit at their own expense for time away from work
caused by a non-work related injury in the same manner
as purchasing service credit for leave a non-work
related illness.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 4/26/12)
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California Public Employees' Retirement System, Board of
Administration (source)
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to CalPERS, "Employers
do not distinguish between illness or injury when approving
employee leaves, which are granted for medical or
disability reasons regardless of cause. The proposed
change would clarify that members are able to purchase
service
credit at their own expense for time away from work caused
by a non-work related injury in the same manner as non-work
related illness."
DLW:mw 4/27/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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