California Senate Bill SB996 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 996INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Committee on Public Employment and Retirement (Senators Negrete McLeod (Chair), Gaines, Padilla, Vargas, and Walters) FEBRUARY 6, 2012 An act to amend Section 31552 of the Government Code, relating to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 996, as introduced, Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 authorizes counties and districts, as defined, to provide a system of retirement benefits to their employees. Existing law provides that all existing officers and employees of the county become members of the retirement association on the day the retirement system becomes operative, and thereafter each person entering the county employ becomes a member on the first day of the calendar month after the person's entrance into the service, unless otherwise provided by regulations adopted by the board. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. 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 31552 of the Government Code is amended to read: 31552. All existing officers and employees of the county become members of the association on the day the retirement system becomes operative, and thereafter each person entering the county employ becomes a member on the first day of the calendar month after his  or her  entrance into the service, unless otherwise provided by regulations adopted by the board.  Such   Those  regulations may provide for waiver of membership by the prospective employee in the case of newly hired employees who have attained the age of 60. In all cases where there is such a waiver, said employee upon attaining the age of 70 shall thereafter be employed from year to year at the discretion of the county.