Bill Text: CA AB2085 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2085 (Prior Session Legislation)

CA State Legislature page for AB2085

Bill Title: Retirement systems: surviving spouse.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-16 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2085 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2085-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly March 20, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2085

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooley

February 07, 2018

An act to add Section 31480.1 of the Government Code, relating to retirement.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2085, as amended, Cooley. Retirement systems: surviving spouse.

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties and districts to establish retirement systems in order to provide pension benefits to their employees and beneficiaries. Existing law requires, after a member’s death, any retirement allowance earned but not yet paid to the member to be paid to the member’s designated beneficiary. Existing law authorizes the surviving spouse of a member who did not designate a beneficiary prior to death to file with the board, as specified, to be deemed the beneficiary.

This bill would define surviving spouse, for purposes of CERL, as a person legally married to the member, who is neither divorced nor legally separated at the time of the member’s ~~death~~ death, and who meets other relevant requirements, as specified.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 31480.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:

31480.1.

“Surviving spouse,” as used in ~~the~~ this chapter, means a person who ~~has~~ is legally married to the member, who is neither divorced nor legally separated from the ~~member, is the spouse of the~~ member at the time of the member’s death, and who meets all other requirements of this chapter pertaining to the length of the marriage and the person’s age at the time of the member’s death.