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

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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-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1144	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2013
	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, 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.


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 and the exclusive representatives of 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 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.