BILL NUMBER: AB 1692	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  123
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 17, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 17, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 1, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        JANUARY 21, 2016

   An act to add Section 31755.4 to the Government Code, relating to
county employees' retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1692, Bonilla. County employees' retirement: Contra Costa
County.
   The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013
(PEPRA) generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to
modify its pension plan or plans to comply with the act and, among
other things, prohibits a public employer that offers a defined
benefit pension plan from exceeding specified retirement formulas for
new members, as defined. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
(CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant
to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county and
district employees. CERL, among other things, authorizes the Board of
Supervisors of Contra Costa County to make a Tier Three retirement
plan applicable to certain nonsafety officers and employees for whom
the board is the governing body, as specified, and sets forth the
terms and conditions of disability retirement allowances for Tier
Three members.
   This bill would authorize the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa
County to apply those terms and conditions to nonsafety officers and
employees who are new members subject to the retirement formulas
specified in PEPRA and for whom the board is the governing body.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 31755.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   31755.4.  (a) The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County may,
by adopting an ordinance, make this section applicable to officers
and employees for whom the board is the governing body.
   (b) This section shall not apply to any officer or employee who is
a safety member.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other law, members whose benefits are
determined under Section 7522.20 shall be eligible for a disability
retirement allowance under the same terms and conditions provided in
Section 31755 for members covered by Tier Three. The board may not
grant a disability retirement allowance to a member whose benefits
are determined under Section 7522.20 except as provided in Section
31720.1. The amount of the disability retirement allowance for a
member whose benefits are determined under Section 7522.20 shall be
as set forth in Section 31727.01.
   (d) Notwithstanding any other law, members whose benefits are
determined under Section 7522.20 who have been retired for disability
shall be eligible for cost-of-living adjustments under the same
terms and conditions provided in subdivision (h) of Section 31755 for
members covered by Tier Three who have been retired for disability.
   (e) This section shall apply only in Contra Costa County.