AB 1175, as introduced, Bocanegra. Public employee benefits: postemployment health care.
The Public Employees’ Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA), which is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, establishes provisions governing postemployment health care benefits for members and their families that vest upon meeting certain requirements. Existing law also establishes various postemployment health care benefits under other benefit systems, including those offered by counties, districts, and cities.
The PEMHCA prohibits compensated service rendered by personnel related to a function that has been assumed by the state from a public agency from being considered state service for purposes of these vesting requirements, unless specified conditions are met.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 22875.5 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) If the state has assumed from a public agency a
4function and the related personnel, service rendered by that
5personnel for compensation as employees or appointed or elective
6officers of that public agency may not be credited as state service
7for the purposes of Section 22874 or 22875, unless both of the
8following apply:
9(1) The former employer has paid or agreed to pay the state the
10amount actuarially determined to equal the cost for any employee
11health benefits that were vested at the time that the function and
12the related personnel were assumed by the state.
13(2) The Department of Finance finds that the contract contains
14a benefit factor begin insertthat
is end insertsufficient to reimburse the state for the
15amount necessary to fully compensate for the postretirement health
16benefit costs of those personnel.
17(b) Forbegin insert aend insert noncontracting publicbegin delete agenciesend deletebegin insert agencyend insert, the state
18agency that has assumed the function shall certify the completed
19years of public agency service to be credited to the employee as
20state service credit under Section 22874 or 22875.
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