BILL NUMBER: AB 1175	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bocanegra

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 22875.5 of the Government Code, relating
to public employee benefits.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 22875.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   22875.5.  (a) If the state has assumed from a public agency a
function and the related personnel, service rendered by that
personnel for compensation as employees or appointed or elective
officers of that public agency may not be credited as state service
for the purposes of Section 22874 or 22875, unless both of the
following apply:
   (1) The former employer has paid or agreed to pay the state the
amount actuarially determined to equal the cost for any employee
health benefits that were vested at the time that the function and
the related personnel were assumed by the state.
   (2) The Department of Finance finds that the contract contains a
benefit factor  that   is  sufficient to reimburse
the state for the amount necessary to fully compensate for the
postretirement health benefit costs of those personnel.
   (b) For  a  noncontracting public  agencies
  agency  , the state agency that has assumed the
function shall certify the completed years of public agency service
to be credited to the employee as state service credit under Section
22874 or 22875.