Bill Text: CA AB2483 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public employees: retirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-01 - Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. [AB2483 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB2483-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2483 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Allen
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
An act to amend Section 20000 20090
of the Government Code, relating to retirement.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2483, as amended, Allen. Public employees: retirement.
Existing
The California Constitution prohibits changing the
composition of the retirement board of certain public pension
systems, including the number, terms, and method of selection and
removal of members, unless the change is ratified by a majority vote
of the electors of the jurisdiction in which the participants of the
pension system are or were, prior to retirement, employed. Existing
law, the Public Employees' Retirement Law establishes the
Public Employees' Retirement System ( PERS) for
the purpose of providing pension benefits to specified public
employees. Existing law creates the Board of Administration of
PERS for the purpose of governing the system and prescribes the
composition of the board. Existing law requires, among other things,
that 2 members of the board of administration be selected from the
membership of the system and elected under the supervision of the
board.
This bill would revise the composition of the Board of
Administration of PERS. The bill would increase to 3 the number of
members of the board to be selected from the membership of the system
and elected under the supervision of the board. This provision would
not become operative until ratified by a majority of voters at a
statewide election. The bill would require the Secretary of State to
submit that provision of the bill to the voters at the next statewide
election.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 20090 of the
Government Code is amended to read:
20090. The Board of Administration of the Public Employees'
Retirement System is continued in existence. It consists of:
(a) One member of the State Personnel Board, selected by and
serving at the pleasure of the State Personnel Board.
(b) The Director of Human Resources.
(c) The Controller.
(d) The Treasurer.
(e) An official of a life insurer and an elected official of a
contracting agency, appointed by the Governor.
(f) One person representing the public, appointed jointly by the
Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on Rules.
(g) Six Seven members elected under
the supervision of the board as follows:
(1) Two Three members elected by the
members of this system from the membership thereof.
(2) A member elected by the active state members of this system
from the state membership thereof.
(3) A member elected by and from the active local members of this
system who are employees of a school district or a county
superintendent of schools.
(4) A member elected by and from the active local members of this
system other than those who are employees of a school district or a
county superintendent of schools.
(5) A member elected by and from the retired members of this
system.
SEC. 2. This act would change the composition of
the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement
System and shall be operative only upon ratification by the voters at
a statewide election, pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 17 of
Article XVI of the California Constitution. The Secretary of State
shall submit this act to the voters for approval at the next
statewide election.
SECTION 1. Section 20000 of the Government Code
is amended to read:
20000. This part shall be known and may be cited as the Public
Employees' Retirement Law.
