Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) A member who, pursuant to Section 20281.5, did not accrue service credit with respect to his or her service to the state may elect to receive credit for that service within the period of time beginning on the first day of the 47th month and ending on the last day of the 49th …

(a) A member who has at least five years of credited state service, may elect, by written notice filed with the board, to make contributions pursuant to this section and receive not less than one year, nor more than five years, in one-year increments, of additional retirement ser…

A member whose right to elect to receive service credit pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 20990) and Article 5 (commencing with Section 21020) has been awarded in part to a nonmember, pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 21290, may elect to receive…

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each member who was employed by the university at the time of becoming a member .

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each member who was employed by the state, but not by the university, at the time of becoming a member. Credit for prior service shall be granted to each state member who, on or before the effective date of his or her retirement under …

Credit for prior service shall also be granted to each state member who became a member while employed on a part-time basis, as a result of amendments of the laws governing this system, or who became a member prior to those amendments, because of a change in status to a full-time…

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each person who was employed by a contracting agency at the time of becoming a member and who became a member on the effective date of the agency’s contract or within three years after last rendering prior service.

Credit for prior service rendered as an employee of a contracting agency shall be granted to each local member at the date the local member becomes a member of this system. This section shall apply to all local members who are in active state service on or after January 1, 1977, …

Credit for prior service shall be granted to each local member who rendered service to a public agency if that agency or a function of that agency is assumed by a contracting agency or a public agency that thereafter becomes a contracting agency. The future annual costs incurred …

The credit for prior service to be granted local members and the benefits pertaining thereto, shall be established by contract between the board and the governing body of the agency. Benefits on account of each year of credited prior service shall be in the form of a percentage o…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, credit for prior service shall be granted only to each person who was employed by a contracting agency on the effective date of the agency’s contract or amendment to the contract under which that prior service is granted. This sec…

Except as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 20990), time during which a member is absent from state service without compensation shall not be allowed in computing service.

Credit for more than one year of service shall not be allowed for service rendered in any fiscal year.

(a) One year of service credit shall be granted for service rendered and compensated in a fiscal year in full-time employment for any of the following: (1) One academic year of service for persons employed on an academic year basis by the University of California, the California …

(a) A state member, whose effective date of retirement is within four months of separation from employment with the state, shall be credited at the member’s retirement with 0.004 year of service credit for each unused day of sick leave certified to the board by the state. The cer…

(a) A state member whose effective date of retirement is within four months of separation from employment of the state, shall be credited at his or her retirement with 0.004 year of service for each unused day of educational leave credit, as certified to the board by the employer…

On and after January 1, 2020, a school member, a school safety member, or a local member employed by a contracting agency that is a school district, county office of education, or community college district, whose effective date of retirement is within four months of separation f…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee who voluntarily resigns from state service during the period January 1, 1980, through June 30, 1980, shall be credited at retirement with additional service credit pursuant to Section 20963 for sick leave accumulated while …

(a) A local miscellaneous member and a local safety member, whose effective date of retirement is within four months of separation from employment with the employer that granted the sick leave credit, shall be credited at the member’s retirement with 0.004 year of service credit …

For the purpose of calculating retirement allowances, credit for service rendered on a part-time basis in each fiscal year shall be based on the ratio that the service rendered bears: (a) To one academic year if rendered on an academic year basis, for members employed by the Univ…

For purposes of Sections 20326 and 21029.5, each day of compensated service with the California National Guard or service by a National Guard member authorized by Title 10 of the United State Code shall count as one day of service and shall be credited in each fiscal year based o…

For the purpose of calculating retirement benefits based on part-time service, except under Section 21381, compensation earnable shall be taken as the compensation that would have been earnable if the employment had been on a full-time basis and the member had worked full time, a…

For all retirement purposes including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances for state employees in the personal leave program, credit for service shall be based on the amount of service that would have been credited had the employee not been in the persona…

(a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances for members employed by the state that are subject to mandatory furloughs, credit for service and compensation earnable shall be based on the amount that would have been credi…

(a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances for members employed by a trial court that are subject to mandatory furloughs, as defined in subdivision (c), credit for service and compensation earnable shall be based on th…

(a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances under this part for a person employed by a county office of education, a school district, a school district that is a contracting agency, a community college district, or a lo…

(a) A member who was involuntarily terminated and who is subsequently reinstated to that employment, pursuant to an administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding, shall be reinstated with all retirement benefits that the member otherwise would have accrued. Administrative proc…

The determining qualification for retirement and the benefit provided under Section 21546 and calculating benefits payable upon death before retirement other than that provided under Section 21546, a year of service shall be credited for each year during which the member was empl…

For the purposes of the computations required by subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 21532, the annual compensation earnable by a person in partial service retirement shall be deemed the amount of annual compensation the person would have received had the person been employed on a …

If a person has been employed by the state or one or more contracting agencies in any relative order and regardless of whether the employment was before or after the effective date of the contract, and if he or she has not been paid his or her accumulated contributions, or having…

A member is absent on military service when he or she is absent from state service by reason of service with the uniformed services. Uniformed services means the Armed Forces of the United States of America, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard when engaged in activ…

Any member who was absent on military service and whose contributions are not paid for him or her by his or her employer as provided in Section 20997, may make the contributions upon his or her return to state service at times and in the manner prescribed by the board. If he or s…

When a member makes the contributions as provided in Section 20991, the same contributions shall be made by the state or contracting agency with respect to the absence that would have been made if the member had not been absent on military service, except that the contributions s…

Any employee of a contracting agency who is or was absent on military service on the effective date of the contract and who would become or would have become a member if he or she were not absent becomes or became a member on the effective date, with the same status and rights of…

Any person in the employ of the state who was or is absent on military service on the date when he or she otherwise would have become or would become a member, became or becomes a member on that date, with the same status and rights of membership as if he or she had not been or w…

An employee of a contracting agency who is or was absent on military service on the effective date of the contract and who would become or would have become a member if he or she were not absent becomes or became a member on that effective date, with the same status and rights of…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, for each member other than a National Guard member absent without compensation due to military service pursuant to Section 20990, the employer shall contribute an amount equal to the contributions that would have been made by …

If a member for whose absence on military service employer’s contributions are paid or payable under Section 20997 withdraws or has withdrawn or is or has been paid his or her accumulated contributions after his or her return to state service from military service, and thereafter…

A member who returns to active state service following an employer-approved leave of absence because of his or her serious illness or injury may elect to receive service credit for that period of uncompensated absence at any time prior to retirement by making contributions as spe…

Time during which a member is absent from state service by reason of injury or illness determined within one year after the end of the absence to have arisen out of and in the course of his or her employment shall be considered as spent in state service for the purpose of qualifi…

“Leave of absence” also means absence from state service because of illness or injury that arose out of and in the course of employment and for which the member received temporary disability benefits under the Labor Code during the absence and did not receive full compensation as…

Time during which a member is absent from state service under leave of absence because of injury or illness that arose out of and in the course of employment, and for which he or she receives full or part salary in lieu of disability indemnity, shall be considered as time spent i…

(a) “Leave of absence” also means any time during which a state member was excused from performance of his or her duties on approved leave for the purpose of further education. Any member electing to receive service credit for that leave of absence shall make the contributions as…

“Leave of absence” also means any time during which a member is granted an approved leave for the purpose of service with a university; college; local, state, federal or foreign governmental agency; or nonprofit organization, if he or she returns to employment within the terms an…

Time during which a member is excused from performance of his or her duties, whether or not he or she is required to perform any portion of those duties during that time, and for which he or she receives compensation, but in an amount less than the full compensation earnable by h…

“Leave of absence” also means time during which a state member is excused from the performance of a portion of his or her duties and did not, during the absence, receive full compensation if the partial leave of absence was formally granted by the employer for one of the purposes…

Unless otherwise provided in this article, a member electing to receive service credit for time during which he or she was absent from state service shall contribute in a lump sum or by installments over that period and subject to such minimum payments as may be prescribed by reg…

Notwithstanding Section 21010, for a member electing to receive service credit for time during which he or she was absent from state service who is subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5, and Section 21077, the contribution rate to be used for the purposes of computation shall be de…

Benefits based on service credited under this article for an absence that are in excess of the portion paid from member contributions shall be paid from contributions of the employer from whose employment the member was absent.

“Leave of absence” also means any time, up to one year, during which a member is granted an approved maternity or paternity leave and returns to active state service at the end of the approved leave for a period of time at least equal to that leave. Any member may elect to receiv…