Bill Text: CA AB1542 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: County employees retirement: cost-of-living adjustments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-07-05 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB1542 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1542-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1542	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member  Norby   Mansoor


                        JANUARY 25, 2012

   An act to add Section 31870.8 to the Government Code, relating to
county employees retirement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1542, as amended,  Norby   Mansoor  .
County employees retirement: cost-of-living adjustments.
   Existing law, the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937,
authorizes counties to establish retirement systems for county
employees, authorizes counties to establish a board of retirement,
and authorizes the board of retirement to provide cost-of-living
adjustments.
   This bill would provide, except as specified, that a person who
first becomes a member of the Orange County Employees Retirement
System on or after January 1, 2012, shall not be eligible to receive
an annual cost-of-living increase, as specified, until at least 12
months from the date of that member's retirement and the member is
only eligible to receive an adjustment based on the preceding 12
months. The bill provides that the operation of these provisions is
contingent upon the Orange County Board of Supervisors adopting a
resolution making those provisions applicable in that county, as
specified.
   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 31870.8 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   31870.8.  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Sections 31870, 31870.1, and
31870.2, a person who first becomes a member on or after January 1,
2012, shall not be eligible to receive an annual cost-of-living
increase pursuant to any of those sections until at least 12 months
from the date of that member's retirement and the member is only
eligible to receive an adjustment based on the preceding 12 months.
   (2) This section shall only become operative when the Orange
County Board of Supervisors, by resolution adopted by a majority
vote, makes the provisions of this section applicable in that county.

   (b) This section shall be applicable to members who retire on or
after the effective date of the resolution described in subdivision
(a).
   (c) This section shall only apply to members who have been
employees or officials of Orange County, with respect to the portion
of their allowance attributable to that service, and does not apply
to any portion of an allowance attributable to a member's service as
an employee or official of any other district or entity within or
outside of the Orange County Employees Retirement System.