Bill Text: CA AB2183 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2183

Introduced

Bill Title: Public employees’ retirement benefits: final compensation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 9. [AB2183 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2183-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2183

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

February 07, 2024

An act to amend Section 7522.32 of the Government Code, relating to public employees’ retirement.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2183, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Public employees’ retirement benefits: final compensation.

The California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA), on and after January 1, 2013, requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act and, among other provisions, establishes certain new retirement formulas that may not be exceeded by a public employer offering a defined benefit pension plan.

PEPRA provides, for purposes of determining a retirement benefit paid to a person who first becomes a member of a public retirement system on or after January 1, 2013, that final compensation means the highest average annual pensionable compensation earned during a period of at least 36 consecutive months, or at least 3 consecutive school years.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 7522.32 of the Government Code is amended to read:

7522.32.

For the purposes of determining a retirement benefit to be paid to a new member of a public retirement system, the following shall apply:

(a) Final compensation shall mean the highest average annual pensionable compensation earned by the member during a period of at least 36 consecutive months, or at least three consecutive school years if applicable, immediately preceding ~~his or her~~ the member’s retirement or last separation from service if earlier, or during any other period of at least 36 consecutive months, or at least three consecutive school years if applicable, during the member’s applicable service that the member designates on the application for retirement.

(b) On or after January 1, 2013, an employer shall not modify a benefit plan to permit a calculation of final compensation on a basis of less than the average annual compensation earned by the member during a consecutive 36-month period, or three school years if applicable, for members who have been subject to at least a 36-month or three-school-year calculation prior to that date.