LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 226, as amended, Torrico. County employees retirement:
compensation.
Under existing law, counties and districts may provide retirement
benefits to their employees pursuant to the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL). CERL specifies the minimum ages and
years of service that are required in order to become eligible for
retirement. That law generally permits the board of supervisors of a
county or the governing board of a district, by resolution adopted by
majority vote and pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, as
specified, to make certain formulas for the calculation of benefits
for its members based on their classification.
The bill would provide that compensation paid to a retiring member
to restore compensation the member would have been entitled to
receive pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement fully executed
on or before July 1, 2010, that was subsequently deferred or
otherwise modified as a result of a concessionary amendment executed
prior to September 1, 2010, shall be considered compensation earnable
and not be deemed to have been paid for the purpose of enhancing a
member's retirement benefit.
This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of the County
of Sacramento, by resolution, adopted by majority vote, as part of a
negotiated memorandum of understanding with a bargaining unit that
represents safety members to require safety employees of that
bargaining unit and unrepresented safety employees, first hired after
approval of the resolution, to receive a specified pension
calculation that applies to safety members and that computes final
compensation based upon the average annual compensation earnable
during a specified 3-year period.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.

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