BILL NUMBER: SB 1692	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 3, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ortiz

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2000

    An act relating to the Teachers' Retirement Law.
  An act to add and repeal Section 24209.3 of the
Education Code, relating to state teachers' retirement, and declaring
the urgency thereof to take effect immediately. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1692, as amended, Ortiz.   Teachers' Retirement Law
  State teachers' retirement:  reinstatement  .

   The State Teachers' Retirement Law prescribes service retirement
allowances for members who retire for service following termination
of a prior service retirement and reinstatement.
   This bill would, until January 1, 2005, prescribe enhanced service
retirement allowances for members who retired for service prior to
January 1, 1999, and who reinstate and perform at least one year of
creditable service, as specified.  The bill would make related
findings and declarations.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.  
   Existing law establishes the Teachers' Retirement Law, as
specified.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation providing for enhanced benefits to teachers who retired
prior to 1999 pursuant to the Teachers' Retirement Law, and who
return to teaching for a significant period of time. 
   Vote:   majority   2/3  .
Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:   no  
yes  .  State-mandated local program:  no.


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

  
  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation providing for enhanced benefits to teachers who retired
prior to January 1, 1999, pursuant to the Teachers' Retirement Law
and who return to teaching for a significant period of time.
 
  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) There is a shortage of qualified teachers in grades K-12.
   (b) California is expected to need 130,000 additional teachers in
grades K-12 and 5,000 additional full-time teachers in community
colleges over the next five years.
   (c) More than 7,200 members of the State Teachers' Retirement
System retired in fiscal year 1998-1999.
   (d) Reinstatement by members of the State Teachers' Retirement
System who are retired for service would help address the teacher
shortage.
   (e) Providing an incentive for currently retired members of the
State Teachers' Retirement System to reinstate would further state
policy of encouraging teacher recruitment and help to remedy current
teacher shortages.
  SEC. 2.  Section 24209.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   24209.3.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 24209, a member who retired
for service prior to January 1, 1999, and who reinstates as an active
member and performs credited service, as defined in Section 22119.5,
in an amount equal to one year of full time equivalent or more,
whether accumulated over a semester, calendar year, or period of
years, shall, upon retirement for service following termination of
the prior service retirement, receive a service retirement allowance
equal to the sum of both of the following:
   (1) An amount calculated pursuant to Section 24202, 24202.5,
24203, 24203.5, or 24206 on service rendered prior to reinstatement,
but on the basis of the member's age at the preceding completed
quarter year, from which age shall be deducted the total time during
which the member was retired for service.
   (2) An amount calculated pursuant to Section 24202, 24202.5,
24203, 24203.5, or 24206 on service credited subsequent to the most
recent termination of retirement allowance, using the member's age at
the subsequent retirement, and the member's final compensation at
the time of the member's pre-January 1, 1999 retirement for service.

   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2005, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2005, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to hire a sufficient number of qualified teachers for the
upcoming academic year, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.