BILL NUMBER: AB 1406	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 31551 of the Government Code, relating to
county employees' retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1406, as introduced, Emmerson. County employees' retirement:
membership.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 provides a
comprehensive set of rights and benefits for county and district
employees who are members of a retirement system subject to that law.
Those counties are required to organize a retirement association,
and county officers and employees are members of that association,
unless expressly excluded from membership. Existing law provides that
persons employed as participants in a program of, and whose wages
are paid in whole or in part by federal funds in accordance with, a
specified federal law, are excluded from membership.
   This bill would replace the reference to that obsolete federal law
with a reference to the current federal law.
   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 31551 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   31551.   The persons   (a)   
 A person  expressly declared to be ineligible to membership
by this article shall not become  members   a
member  of the retirement association, and, except as expressly
excluded,  the persons   a person 
enumerated in this article shall become  members 
 a member  of the association. 
   Persons 
    (b)     A person  employed as 
participants   a participant  in a program of, and
whose wages are paid in whole or in part by federal funds in
accordance with, the  Comprehensive Employment and Training
Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-203)   Workforce Investment
Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-220)  , as amended,  are
  or any of its predecessors, is excluded from
membership. This exclusion shall not apply to active fire suppression
personnel who are safety members pursuant to Sections 31469.3 and
31470.4.