BILL NUMBER: AB 1651	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member De La Torre

                        JANUARY 13, 2010

   An act to add Section 20960.1 to the Government Code, relating to
public retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1651, as introduced, De La Torre. Public Employees' Retirement
Law: furloughs: retirement credit.
   The Public Employees' Retirement Law provides retirement benefits
based upon a member's final compensation and years of credited
service. That law provides that members in the personal leave program
shall receive credit for service that would have been credited had
the employee not been in the personal leave program.
   This bill would provide that the calculations for retirement
allowances under the Public Employees' Retirement Law for members
that are employees of specified educational entities who are subject
to mandatory furloughs shall include, as credit for service and
compensation, the amount of service and compensation that would have
been credited and paid had the member not been subject to mandatory
furloughs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 20960.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   20960.1.  (a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit
eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances for a member
employed by a county office of education, a school district, a school
district that is a contracting agency, or a community college
district that is subject to mandatory furloughs, the member's credit
for service and compensation earnable shall include the amount of
service that would have been credited and the compensation earnable
that would have been reported had that member not been subject to a
mandatory furlough.
   (b) For the purposes of this section, "mandatory furlough"
includes any time period during which a member is directed to be
absent from work without pay on the day or days designated by their
employer or by a memorandum of understanding by the parties entered
into on or after July 1, 2008.
   (c) An employer of a member identified in subdivision (a) shall
notify the board and the county superintendent of schools of the
terms and conditions of any mandatory furlough, including, but not
limited to, the amount of mandatory furlough time imposed on members
during a reporting period, and the date on which the mandatory
furlough ends. The employer and county superintendent of schools
shall provide any additional information as the board may require to
implement this section.