BILL NUMBER: AB 419	CHAPTERED  09/08/00

	CHAPTER   346
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 8, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 18, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 20, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 3, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 27, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Firebaugh

                        FEBRUARY 12, 1999

   An act to amend Section 21252 of the Government Code, relating to
the Public Employees' Retirement System.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 419, Firebaugh.  Public Employees' Retirement System:
benefits.
   The Public Employees' Retirement Law prescribes the effective date
of service retirement for purposes of accrual of  allowances.
   This bill would prescribe the effective date of disability
retirement under specified circumstances.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 21252 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   21252.  Retirement shall be effective and the retirement allowance
shall begin to accrue as of the date designated in the member's
application as the effective date of retirement, or upon the day
following the last day for which salary is payable if that day
postdates the day designated by the person as the effective date or
if the member has not designated an effective date.  In no event
shall the retirement become effective or the retirement allowance
begin to accrue earlier than the first day of the month in which the
member's application is received at an office of the board or by an
employee of this system designated by the board, or, if the member
has been incompetent to act on his or her own behalf continuously
from the last day for which salary was payable, one year prior to the
month in which an application by the guardian of his or her estate
is so received.  In the case of an application for retirement for
disability submitted by a member who was physically or mentally
incapacitated to perform duties from the date of the discontinuance
of state service to the time of the application, and who files his or
her retirement application with the board within nine months after
discontinuance of state service, the application shall be deemed to
have been filed on the last day for which the salary was payable. In
the case of an application for retirement for disability filed with
the board more than nine months after discontinuance of the member's
state service, the effective date of the application shall be
determined in accordance with Section 20160.  An application for
retirement may only be filed by or for a member who is living on the
date the application is actually received by this system.