BILL NUMBER: SB 996	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Public Employment and Retirement
(Senators Negrete McLeod (Chair), Gaines, Padilla, Vargas, and
Walters)

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2012

   An act to amend Section 31552 of the Government Code, relating to
the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 996, as introduced, Committee on Public Employment and
Retirement. County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.
   The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties
and districts, as defined, to provide a system of retirement benefits
to their employees. Existing law provides that all existing officers
and employees of the county become members of the retirement
association on the day the retirement system becomes operative, and
thereafter each person entering the county employ becomes a member on
the first day of the calendar month after the person's entrance into
the service, unless otherwise provided by regulations adopted by the
board.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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 31552 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   31552.  All existing officers and employees of the county become
members of the association on the day the retirement system becomes
operative, and thereafter each person entering the county employ
becomes a member on the first day of the calendar month after his
 or her  entrance into the service, unless otherwise
provided by regulations adopted by the board.  Such 
 Those  regulations may provide for waiver of membership by
the prospective employee in the case of newly hired employees who
have attained the age of 60. In all cases where there is such a
waiver, said employee upon attaining the age of 70 shall thereafter
be employed from year to year at the discretion of the county.