Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Equal sharing of normal costs between the state employer and public employees shall be the standard. It shall be the standard that employees pay at least 50 percent of normal costs and that employers not pay any of the required employee contribution. Equal sharing of normal costs…

Notwithstanding Sections 20677 and 20687, on and after July 1, 2017, the normal rate of contribution for an employee of the judicial branch who is not subject to Section 7522.30 shall be the following: (a) For a state miscellaneous member: (1) Nine percent of the compensation in …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.6, effective July 1, 2017, the normal rate of contribution for state miscellaneous or state industrial members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 16 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the followi…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4, 20677.6, and 20683.4, effective July 1, 2024, the normal contribution rate for state miscellaneous and industrial members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 16 shall be as follows: (1) Nine and one-half percent of compensation in ex…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20683 and 20677.9, effective July 1, 2017, the normal rate of contribution for state safety members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 16 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The total norma…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.9, 20683, and 20683.5, effective July 1, 2026, the normal rate of contribution for state safety members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 16 described in Section 20677.9 shall remain in effect unless the board has determined that both…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.71, effective July 1, 2019, the normal rate of contribution for state miscellaneous members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 9 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The to…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4, 20677.71, and 20683.2, effective July 1, 2019, the normal rate of contribution for state industrial members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 9 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1)…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20683, 20677.91, and 20683.2, the normal rate of contribution for state safety members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 9 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The total normal cost rate fo…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.71, effective July 1, 2019, the normal rate of contribution for state miscellaneous members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 10 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The t…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4, 20677.71, and 20683.2, effective July 1, 2019, the normal rate of contribution for state industrial members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 10 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20683, 20677.91, and 20683.2, the normal rate of contribution for state safety members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 10 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The total normal cost rate f…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.71, effective July 1, 2023, the normal contribution rates for state miscellaneous members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 1, State Bargaining Unit 3, State Bargaining Unit 4, State Bargaining Unit 11, State Bargaining Un…

(a) Effective July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2027, inclusive, the employee contributions described in Section 20677.6 for state miscellaneous and industrial members represented by State Bargaining Unit 18 shall remain in place. (b) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.6, effecti…

(a) Effective July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2027, inclusive, the employee contributions described in Section 20677.9 for state safety members represented by State Bargaining Unit 18 shall remain in place. (b) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.9 and 20683, effective July 1, 2027, the nor…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.71, effective July 1, 2023, the normal contribution rates for state miscellaneous or state industrial members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 7 shall be: (1) Eight and one-half percent of compensation in excess of five h…

(a) Effective July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2027, inclusive, the employee contribution rate for state safety members represented by State Bargaining Unit 2 shall remain at 11.5 percent. (b) Notwithstanding Sections 20683.1, 20683.2, and 20683.81.2, effective July 1, 2027, the normal …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.91, 20683, and 20683.2, effective July 1, 2023, the normal contribution rates for state safety members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 7 shall be: (1) Eleven and one-half percent of compensation in excess of three hundred seventeen …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.9, 20683, and 20683.2, effective July 1, 2022, the normal contribution rates for state safety members who are represented by State Bargaining Unit 13 shall be: (1) Eleven and one-half percent of compensation in excess of three hundred seventeen …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.8, 20681, 20683.2, and 20694, effective July 1, 2021, the normal rate of contribution for patrol members who are represented by Bargaining Unit 5 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The total n…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 20677.4 and 20677.7, effective July 1, 2021, the normal rate of contribution for state miscellaneous members who are represented by Bargaining Unit 5 shall be adjusted in accordance with this section when both of the following occur: (1) The total nor…

For each local safety member subject to Section 21370, effective on January 1, 1985, or later date of entrance into this system as such a member, the normal rate of contribution shall be 7 percent of compensation. The normal rate of contribution as established under this section …

The normal rate of contribution for a local member who was a member of a local system at the time it was discontinued by inclusion of members of the local system in this system shall, if the contract so provides, be based on age at entry of the member into the local system.

For each state safety member defined in Section 20401 and whose current and prior service pensions shall be computed pursuant to Section 21373, the normal rate of contribution shall be 8 percent and shall be made only on the compensation in excess of two hundred thirty-eight doll…

(a) The normal rate of contribution for state peace officer/firefighter members subject to Section 21363, 21363.1, 21363.3, 21363.4, or 21363.8 shall be 8 percent of the compensation in excess of two hundred thirty-eight dollars ($238) per month paid to those members. (b) If the …

Notwithstanding Section 20687, the normal rate of contribution for state peace officer/firefighter members who are supervisors within the boards and departments of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency or who are correctional supervisors within the State Department of State Hos…

The normal rate of contribution otherwise established under this article for a local safety member whose retirement allowance is determined under Section 21362, 21362.2, 21363.1, or 21366, and reduced under Section 21367 because his or her service is included in the federal syste…

The Legislature reserves the right to increase or otherwise adjust the rates of contribution prescribed in this article in amounts and in a manner it may from time to time find appropriate.

Contract amendments, and that portion of a contract which subjected an employer to former Section 20614, as it read prior to its repeal by Chapter 1168 of the Statutes of 1980, may be revoked prospectively in the manner provided for the approval of contracts, including an electio…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), notwithstanding any other law, a contracting agency or school employer may pay all or a portion of the normal contributions required to be paid by a member. Where the member is included in a group or class of employment, the payment …

(a) Where a contracting agency employer or a school employer has elected to pay all or a portion of the normal contributions of members of a group or class of employment pursuant to Section 20691, the employer may, pursuant to a labor policy or agreement, stop paying those contri…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), notwithstanding any other law, the state or the Regents of the University of California may pay all or a portion of the normal contributions required to be paid by a state member. The payments shall be reported as employer-paid normal co…

(a) This section shall apply only to patrol members in State Bargaining Unit 5. (b) The state shall pay all of the normal contributions required to be paid by patrol members pursuant to Section 20681 until June 30, 2001. (c) Notwithstanding Section 20681, effective July 1, 2001, …

Subject to rules prescribed by the board, any member or any employer, other than the state, on behalf of any group of miscellaneous members, any group of members designated by the employer as management employees, or any members, may elect to make contributions in excess of the m…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a member may at any time, in writing, authorize the board to apply any additional contributions standing to the member’s credit as payment of any contributions required of the member or payable at the member’s option pursuant to a…

An election by any member or any employer to make additional contributions in accordance with Section 20710 shall be effective only if it was filed with the board on or before June 30, 1983. Additional contributions may be made on and after July 1, 1983, in accordance with the te…

At any time prior to the payment of his or her first retirement allowance, a person whose retirement was compulsory under this article may file with the board a request for refund of his or her accumulated contributions as of the effective date of the retirement, in lieu of any o…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a member who is credited with less than the years of service specified in Article 1 (commencing with Section 21060) of Chapter 12 who enters employment as a member of a public retirement system supported, in whole or in part, …

A member who ceases to be entitled to credit in this system for future service because of Section 20300 shall be considered permanently separated from state service with respect to his or her right to withdraw contributions.

The payment of accumulated contributions to a former member shall include current year interest through the date in which the claim is filed with the office of the Controller.

If the state service or membership of a member is discontinued, he or she shall, upon his or her request, be paid his or her accumulated contributions, if, in the opinion of the board, he or she is permanently separated from state service or membership by reason of the discontinu…

The account of a member who elects to be subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5 shall be paid current year interest through the effective date of that election for service rendered as a state miscellaneous or state industrial member. Interest subsequent to the effective date of that…

Subject to regulations adopted by the board, a member may file an election with the board to redeposit in the retirement fund, in a lump sum or by installment payments, (1) an amount equal to the accumulated contributions that he or she has withdrawn at one or more terminations o…

If a nonmember, as defined in Section 21291, withdraws accumulated contributions in accordance with Section 21292, the member may redeposit those contributions pursuant to this article.

A member whose right to redeposit contributions has been awarded in part to a nonmember, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 21290, may elect to redeposit contributions for the same amount that the nonmember was entitled to redeposit, if the nonmember has perm…

(a) A member of the Judges’ Retirement System, the Judges’ Retirement System II, the Legislators’ Retirement System, the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, the University of California Retirement Plan, or a county retirement system, who has withdrawn accumulated contributions from …

Contributions due to this system because of salary earned after reentry into state service following withdrawal and prior to redeposit of accumulated contributions, but not paid to this system because of termination of state service before completion of the necessary administrati…

Any amount that a member elected to pay under any election with respect to normal contributions permitted under this part prior to withdrawal of accumulated contributions, including amounts unpaid at the time of the withdrawal, and any amount of arrears contributions then unpaid …

Upon reentering this system after a termination of his or her membership, if a member does not elect to redeposit withdrawn contributions as provided in Section 20750 or, having so elected, subsequently does not make the redeposit, he or she reenters as a new member without credi…

Benefits based on service credited under this article and Article 4 (commencing with Section 20730), where the service credit is derived from a member’s redeposit of contributions, shall be paid from contributions of the employer or employers which is or are the source of the con…