CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
An act to amend Sections 31525, 31646, 31725.7, 31730, 31760, and 31838.5 of, and to add Sections 31646.2 and 31680.16 to, the Government Code, relating to public employees’ retirement.
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AB 1971, as introduced, Cooper. County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.
The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension and other benefits to county and district employees. CERL generally vests responsibility for management of a retirement system created pursuant to its provisions in a board of retirement (board). CERL authorizes a board to make regulations that are not inconsistent with its provisions and these regulations become effective when approved by the applicable board of supervisors.
This bill would specify other provisions with which the above-described regulations are required to be consistent and would remove the requirement of approval by the board of supervisors as a necessary condition for them to become effective.
CERL authorizes a member who returns to active service following an uncompensated leave of absence on account of illness or parental leave to receive service credit for the period of the absence upon the payment of the contributions, as specified. CERL prescribes limits on these benefits and processes for making contributions. CERL authorizes the provision of service credit to...
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