Title GOV — California Gov. Code

On or before November 15 of each year, the department shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the current activity, future plans, and past accomplishments of the overall employment program for individuals with a disability in state government, including an evaluation …

(a) By December 31, 2025, the department, shall report to the Legislature on all of the following: (1) The number of persons with disabilities hired by each appointing power during the three-year period ending June 30, 2025, and a comparison to the hiring of persons with disabili…

(a) Any public agency may participate in this system by contract entered into between its governing body and the board pursuant to this part. However, a public agency shall not enter into the contract within three years of termination of a previous contract for participation. (b)…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), for all counties that contract with the board for the provision of retirement benefits for their eligible employees as of the implementation date of the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Sec…

The board may refuse to contract with, or to agree to an amendment proposed by, any public agency for any benefit provisions that are not specifically authorized by this part and that the board determines would adversely affect the administration of this system.

The governing body of a public agency that has established a pension trust or retirement plan funded by individual or group life insurance or annuity contracts may, notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, enter into a contract to participate in this system mak…

(a) The governing body of a public agency, or an employee organization, recognized under Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, that represents employees of the public agency, that desires to consider the participation of the agency in this system or …

(a) On request of the board, the public agency shall furnish data concerning its employees as the board requires to make the necessary valuations and investigation into the experience among the employees. (b) On request of the board, the public agency shall furnish the board a co…

The approximate contribution quoted by the board and the actual contribution to be made if a contract results shall be determined by actuarial valuations by the actuary of the prior and future service liability under this system, on account of the employees involved in the comput…

Notwithstanding Section 20466, the approximate contribution quoted by the board and the actual contributions for a contracting agency that is an employer for purposes of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 20790) shall be the employer rate under Chapter 9, plus the additional amou…

The approximate and actual contributions are similar to premiums under insurance policies. The approximate contribution quoted by the board to the public agency is subject to the contingency that the actual contribution certified by the board after the approval of a contract may …

If after receiving the approximate contribution quotation the governing body intends to approve the proposed contract, it shall adopt a resolution giving notice of that intention. The resolution shall contain a summary of the major provisions of the proposed retirement plan. The …

(a) Notwithstanding 20469, if after receiving the approximate contribution quotation the governing body of a county and the presiding officer of a trial court located in the same county intend to approve a proposed joint contract, both shall adopt a resolution giving notice of th…

The governing body shall not include in this system any group if a majority of its members voted to disapprove the proposed plan or if two-thirds of those of its members who are also members of an existing local retirement pension or annuity fund or system do not vote for approva…

Approval of the contract shall be by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the governing body, not less than 20 days after the adoption of the resolution of intention, or by ordinance adopted by a majority vote of the electorate of the public a…

Notwithstanding Section 20471, and except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 20469.1, approval of a proposed joint contract by a trial court and county shall be by ordinances or resolutions adopted by both the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the governing …

(a) A county and a trial court that elect to separate the joint contract into individual contracts shall do so by ordinances or resolutions adopted by both the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the governing body of a county and the presiding officer of the trial c…

Errors in any contract may be corrected through amendments approved by the adoption of suitable resolutions by the contracting parties. Excluded employees may be included by groups through amendments approved in the manner prescribed for the approval of the contracts, except that…

Investigations and valuations necessary to adjust the agency’s contributions on account of changed benefits or conditions of retirement shall be made in the manner prescribed for valuations and investigations to determine the approximate and actual contributions. Amendments in th…

Whenever by any provision of law an election is given to contracting agencies to subject themselves and their employees to provisions of this part otherwise not applicable to contracting agencies and their employees, and no other means of making the election is expressly provided…

Notwithstanding Section 20474, a contracting agency may amend its contract or previous amendments to its contract, without election among its employees, to reduce benefits, to terminate provisions that are available only by election of the agency to become subject thereto, to pro…

Whenever any provision of this part requires action by ordinance, action by resolution is authorized, except with respect to cities and counties, if the governing body of the public agency is authorized to take action by resolution.

If the head of a public agency is an individual, rather than a board or other governing body, all actions required or permitted by this part to be taken by ordinance may be taken by order of the individual, and every action required by this part to be taken by a public agency gov…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the board of directors of a metropolitan water district, or the governing body of any other public agency, shall adopt any order, motion, resolution or ordinance, required under the provisions of this part to be adopted by a major…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, no contract or contract amendment shall be made to provide retirement benefits for some, but not all members of the following membership …

Notwithstanding Section 20479, where a memorandum of understanding entered prior to August 11, 1988, provided a different retirement benefit formula for a subgroup of employees in a member classification, that contracting agency may, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, ame…

(a) An out-of-class appointment by a contracting agency employer or a school employer shall not exceed a total of 960 hours in each fiscal year. (b) A contracting agency employer or school employer shall track the hours worked by an employee serving in an out-of-class appointment…

All members of a local system included by contract in this system thereupon become subject to this part and cease to be members of the local system. Payments being made to persons who have retired or their survivors or beneficiaries under the local system on the effective date of…

Subject to the approval of the board as in the case of all other employees, the contracting agency may elect to continue the local system and to place under this system only a portion of the members of the local system.

If all members of the local system become members of this system, the operation of the local system shall be discontinued as of the date provided for in the contract, and if only a part of the members become members of this system, the operation of the local system shall be so di…

Notwithstanding Section 20483, if a member of a local system, which is also a reciprocal system pursuant to Section 20351, elects to join this system as permitted by Section 20504, the operation of the local system shall continue.

It is the intent of the Legislature that contracting agencies in conjunction with recognized local employee organizations, develop alternative retirement plans that provide benefits under a defined contribution program.

(a) Notwithstanding Section 20484, a contracting agency that continued the local system for members who elected to become members of this system prospectively pursuant to Section 20504 may transfer to this system the cash and securities to the credit of the local system and held …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contracting agency or public agency that becomes the subject of a case under the bankruptcy provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 901) of Title 11 of the United States Code shall reject any contract or agreement between th…

The contract may include any provisions consistent with this part and necessary in the administration of this system as it affects the public agency and its employees. Whenever in this part an election is given to contracting agencies to subject themselves and their employees to …

Contracts with school employers may include school district employees in this system only with respect to service rendered in a status in which they are not eligible for membership in the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan.

(a) (1) The initial contract shall include in this system all firefighters, police officers, county peace officers, local sheriffs, and other employees of the contracting agency, except as exclusions in addition to the exclusions applicable to state employees may be agreed to by …

Notwithstanding Section 20055, a contracting agency may amend its contract to remove exclusions prospectively only, and without creating liability for prior service.

Notwithstanding Section 20055, a contracting agency, which is a reciprocal system pursuant to Section 20351, may amend its contract to remove an exclusion of groups of employees of the reciprocal system who elect to become members of this system prospectively only. The amendment …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every employee who enters or reenters service with a contracting agency on and after January 1, 1992, shall immediately become a member of this system irrespective of any probationary period, if the employee would otherwise be eligible …

Any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into shall subject the contracting agency and its employees to all provisions of this part and all amendments thereto applicable to members, local miscellaneous members, or local safety members except those provisions that are expressl…

A contracting agency whose contract is effective on and after January 1, 1974, that does not become an employer for purposes of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 20790), or a contracting agency that ceases to be an employer, shall be subject to all provisions of the retirement l…

When a contracting agency is succeeded by another agency, whether or not the former agency ceases to exist, or when the functions of a contracting agency are assumed by a succeeding agency, the succeeding agency, may, if it is not already a contracting agency, become a contractin…

A successor agency, pursuant to Section 20508, for the El Dorado County Fire Protection District and the Diamond Springs-El Dorado Fire Protection District may provide employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employer prior…

A successor agency, pursuant to Section 20508, for the Humboldt No. 1 Fire Protection District and City of Eureka Fire Department may provide employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employer prior to the annexation. This s…

On and after June 30, 2020, a successor agency, pursuant to Section 20508, for the Central Fire Protection District and the Aptos/La Selva Fire Protection District may provide employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employ…

When a school district ceases to exist and is succeeded by, or the territory thereof is attached to, another school district that is a contracting agency, the contract under which the contracting agency participates in this system shall be considered, with respect to the former d…

When a hospital becomes a contracting agency pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section 20057, the contract shall be construed as a continuation of the city’s contract for all purposes of this part, and the sponsoring city, the hospital, and the board shall enter into an agreement un…

Notwithstanding this article or Article 5 (commencing with Section 20570), when all or a portion of one agency’s contract is merged into that of another, the retirement allowances may be computed separately for service under the former contract and service under the succeeding co…

Whenever in this part an election is given to contracting agencies to subject themselves and their employees to provisions of this part otherwise not applicable to contracting agencies and their employees, a contracting agency may exercise the right of election independently with…