California Senate Bill SB521 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 521INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Walters FEBRUARY 17, 2011 An act to amend Section 22000 of the Government Code, relating to public employees' retirement. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 521, as introduced, Walters. Public employees' retirement: social security. The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement system is required, upon application by a public agency, as defined, to execute an agreement with the federal government for the coverage of the public employees of the agency under the federal Social Security Act in conformity with specified regulations. Existing law expresses the Legislature's policy that protection afforded to employees in positions covered by a public retirement system on the date that an agreement for coverage for those employees under the federal Social Security Act is made applicable to the service performed, or to the benefits received, under the retirement system and that those protections are not impaired as a result of the agreement or as a result of a legislative enactment made in anticipation of the agreement. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 22000 of the Government Code is amended to read: 22000. It is the policy of the Legislature that the protection afforded  to  employees in positions covered by a retirement system on the date an agreement under this part is made applicable to service performed in  such   those  positions, or  receiving   to  periodic benefits  received  under  such   that  retirement system  at such time  , will not be impaired as a result of making the agreement  so applicable  or as a result of  a  legislative enactment  made  in anticipation  thereof   of the agreement  .