Bill Text: CA AB1144 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act: City of

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 244, Statutes of 2013. [AB1144 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1144-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1144	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 15, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 22893.1 to the Government Code, relating to
public employee benefits.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1144, as amended, Hall. Public Employees' Medical and Hospital
Care Act: City of Carson.
   The Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA)
authorizes the Board of Administration of the Public Employees'
Retirement System to contract with carriers for health benefit plans
for employees and annuitants, as defined. Existing law requires an
agency contracting for coverage under PEMHCA and each employee or
annuitant to contribute a portion of the cost of providing the
benefit coverage afforded under the health benefit plan in which the
employee or annuitant may be enrolled and prescribes various
schedules for employer payments and requirements in relation to those
payments.
   This bill  , for an employee hired on or after January 1,
2014,  would require the employer contribution for
postretirement health benefit coverage for an employee of the City of
Carson to be based on specified percentages associated with the
employee's credited years of service, which would reach 100% when the
employee attains 10 years of credited service. The bill would define
credited service as service performed with the City of Carson. The
bill would require that the employer contribution with respect to
each employee be mutually agreed upon through collective bargaining,
as specified  , except for an unrepresented employee, for whom
the employer contribution would be established by a city council
resolution  . The bill would require that the employer provide
any information requested by the board that the board deems necessary
to implement the section.
   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 22893.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   22893.1.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part,
the percentage of employer contribution payable for postretirement
health benefits for an employee of the City of Carson, California,
shall be based on the employee's completed years of credited service,
provided that the City of Carson shall not pay an employer
contribution for the first five years of that credited service, and
shall pay thereafter as shown in the following table:

Credited Years of Service           Percentage of
Employer Contribution
  5 ........................................... 50
  6 ........................................... 60
  7 ........................................... 70
  8 ........................................... 80
  9 ........................................... 90
  10 ......................................... 100



   The application of this subdivision shall be subject to the
following:
   (1)  (A)    The employer contribution with
respect to each annuitant shall be mutually agreed upon through
collective bargaining by the City of  Carson,  
Carson and  the exclusive representatives of employees of the
city  , and unrepresented employees of the city  .
The employer may adjust the amount from time to time through a
collectively bargained memorandum of understanding. Changes to the
employer contribution shall be ratified by a resolution passed by the
city council of the City of Carson and that resolution shall be
filed with the board.  The employer contribution established by
this paragraph shall not be less than the adjusted employer
contribution required by subdivision (b) of Section 22892.  

   (B) In the case of employees not represented by a bargaining unit,
the employer contribution with respect to each annuitant shall be
determined pursuant to a resolution passed by a majority of the city
council of the City of Carson and that resolution shall be filed with
the board. 
   (2) The employer shall certify to the board, in the case of
employees not represented by a bargaining unit, that there is not an
applicable memorandum of understanding.
   (3) The credited service of an annuitant for the purpose of
determining the percentage of employer contributions applicable under
this section shall mean credited service performed with the City of
Carson.
   (4) The employer shall provide the board any information requested
that the board determines is necessary to implement this section.
   (b) This section  is not applicable to any employee who
retired before the effective date of the memorandum of understanding.
In the event that the memorandum of understanding establishes a
retroactive effective date, this section applies only prospectively
and any employee who retires before the memorandum of understanding
is signed may not be affected by it   applies only to
the City of Carson and only with regard to an employee of the city
who is first hired on or after January 1, 2014  .