BILL NUMBER: AB 2155
VETOED DATE: 09/29/2016
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 2155 without my signature.
This bill functionally allows a community college district and its
employees to lower the minimum instructional hours that certain
part-time community college district instructors would be required to
work to earn creditable service under the State Teachers' Retirement
System.
I am concerned this bill, by authorizing districts to bargain for a
lower instructional hour requirement that would qualify as
pensionable service credit, will only increase state pension costs.
This is not prudent, especially in light of STRS' massive unfunded
liabilities.
Sincerely,
Edmund G. Brown Jr.