BILL NUMBER: AB 2115	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

    An act to amend Section 5786 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to recreation and park districts.   An
act to add Section 7514.6 to the Government Code, relating to public
employees' retirement. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2115, as amended, Alejo.  Recreation and park
districts: powers and duties.   Public employees'
retirement: pension limitation.  
   Existing law establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System
and the State Teachers' Retirement System for the purpose of
providing pension benefits to their employees. Existing law also
establishes the Judges' Retirement System II which provides pension
benefits to elected judges and the Legislators' Retirement System
which provides pension benefits to elective officers of the state
other than judges and to legislative statutory officers. The County
Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties to establish
retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide
pension benefits to county, city, and district employees. The Regents
of the University of California have established the University of
California Retirement System as a trust for this purpose.  
   This bill would prohibit the pension benefit of a person who is a
member of a public retirement system from exceeding $173,987 per
year.  
   Existing law provides for the establishment of recreation and park
districts prescribes procedures for, among other things, the
formation of the district, and sets forth the powers and duties of
the district board of directors.  
   This bill would make various technical, nonsubstantive changes in
the provisions governing the powers and duties of a recreation and
park district. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 7514.6 is added to the 
 Government Code   , to read:  
   7514.6.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of
determining the defined pension benefit of a person who is a member
of a public retirement system, the maximum amount of that benefit
shall not exceed one hundred seventy-three thousand nine hundred
eighty-seven dollars ($173,987) per year.
   (b)  For purposes of this section, the following definitions
apply:
   (1) "Public employer" means:
   (A) The state and every state entity, including, but not limited
to, the Legislature, the courts, the California State University, and
the University of California.
   (B) Any political subdivision of the state, including, but not
limited to, a city, county, city and county, charter city, charter
county, charter city and county, school district, community college
district, joint powers authority, joint powers agency, and any public
agency, authority, board, commission, district, or other entity.
   (2) "Public retirement system" means any pension or retirement
system of a public employer.  
       
  SECTION 1.    Section 5786 of the Public Resources
Code is amended to read:
   5786.  A district may do all of the following:
   (a) Organize, promote, conduct, and advertise programs of
community recreation, including, but not limited to, parks and open
space, parking, transportation, and any other related services that
improve the community's quality of life.
   (b) Establish systems of recreation and recreation facilities,
including, but not limited to, parks and open space.
   (c) Acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate recreation
facilities, including, but not limited to, parks and open space, both
inside and beyond the district's boundaries.