Title GOV — California Gov. Code

A health benefit plan offered by the California Association of Highway Patrolmen may rebate funds to participants enrolled in the basic and Medicare health benefit plans sponsored by the association, in order to ensure that participant out-of-pocket costs remain at a reasonable a…

(a) The board shall pay monthly to an employee or annuitant who is enrolled in, or whose family member is enrolled in, a Medicare health benefit plan under this part the amount of the Medicare Part B premiums, exclusive of penalties, except as provided in Section 22831. This paym…

The contributions of each employee and annuitant shall be withheld from the monthly salary or retirement allowance payable to him or her. The employer contribution required of the state, as provided by Sections 22881 and 22883, for any month shall be charged to the same fund used…

From the General Fund in the State Treasury, there is hereby appropriated monthly the employer contribution required of the state under Sections 22820, 22834, 22870, 22871, and 22885 for: (a) All employees whose compensation is paid from the General Fund. (b) All employees whose …

(a) Each fund in the State Treasury, other than the General Fund and the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund, shall be charged a fair share of the employer contribution for annuitants in accordance with Article 2 (commencing with Section 11270) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 3…

(a) The state shall, in addition to the contributions required by Section 22870, contribute additional amounts necessary to provide funds for the administration of this part and for the establishment and continuation of the Public Employees’ Contingency Reserve Fund. (b) The addi…

Any person or entity subject to the requirements of this chapter shall comply with the standards set forth in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 3750) of Part 1 of Division 9 of the Family Code and Section 14124.94 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(a) The contracting agency and each employee or annuitant shall contribute a portion of the cost of providing the benefit coverage afforded under the health benefit plan approved or maintained by the board in which the employee or annuitant may be enrolled. (b) An annuitant is en…

(a) The employer contribution of a contracting agency shall begin on the effective date of enrollment and shall be the amount fixed from time to time by resolution of the governing body of the agency. The resolution shall be filed with the board and the contribution amount shall …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 22892, the percentage of employer contribution payable for postretirement health benefits for an employee of a contracting agency subject to this section shall, except as provided in subdivision (b), be based on the member’s completed years of credited…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the percentage of employer contribution payable for postretirement health benefits for an employee of the City of Carson, California, shall be based on the employee’s completed years of credited service, provided that the City…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the City of San Diego, the employees’ exclusive representative, and unrepresented employees may agree that the employer contribution for postretirement health coverage shall be subject to the following: (1) Credited years of s…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a school employer, the employees’ exclusive representative, and unrepresented employees may agree that the employer contribution for postretirement health coverage shall be subject to the following: (1) Credited years of servi…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 22892, the percentage of employer contribution payable for postretirement health benefits for an employee of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District subject to this section shall, except as provided in subdivision (b), be based on the member’s comple…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a contracting agency and the employees’ exclusive representative may agree that the employer contribution for postretirement health benefit coverage for an employee subject to this section shall be based on the employee’s comp…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the percentage of employer contribution payable for postretirement health benefits for an employee of the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority shall, except as provided in subdivision (b), be based on the employ…

(a) The contributions required of a contracting agency, along with contributions withheld from salaries of its employees, shall be forwarded monthly, no later than the 10th day of the month for which the contribution is due. The contributions shall be credited to the Public Emplo…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the County of Mariposa and the employees’ exclusive representative may agree that the employer contribution for health coverage shall be subject to the following: (1) In the case of employees represented by a bargaining unit, …

Each contracting agency shall contribute to the Public Employees’ Contingency Reserve Fund, an amount sufficient to bear all of the administrative costs incurred by the board in providing to the employees and annuitants of that agency the health benefits provided by this part. Th…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the term “district” shall mean the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the district may make contributions for postretirement health benefits for its unrepresented employees, in…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the City of San Gabriel, the employees’ exclusive representative, and unrepresented employees may agree that the employer contribution for postretirement health coverage shall be subject to all of the following: (1) Credited y…

Any person or entity subject to the requirements of this chapter shall comply with the standards set forth in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 3750) of Part 1 of Division 9 of the Family Code and Section 14124.94 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(a) There shall be maintained in the State Treasury the Public Employees’ Contingency Reserve Fund. The board may invest funds in the Public Employees’ Contingency Reserve Fund in accordance with the law governing its investment of the retirement fund. (b) (1) An account shall be…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Local annuitant” means an annuitant other than a state annuitant. (2) “Local employee” means an employee other than a state employee. (3) “Retiree drug subsidy” means those amounts described in Section …

(a) There shall be maintained in the State Treasury the Public Employees’ Health Care Fund to fund the health benefit plans administered or approved by the board. The board may invest funds in the Public Employees’ Health Care Fund in accordance with the provisions of law governi…

(a) The Controller shall suitably identify and remit the state’s monthly contribution, as required by Section 22870, and the monthly amounts authorized to be deducted from the salaries or retirement allowances of state employees and annuitants for payment of their contributions, …

There is in the State Treasury the State Annuitants’ Vision Care Benefits Fund that is, upon appropriation by the Legislature, available to the board for expenditure solely for the provision of vision care benefits to state annuitants pursuant to this part.

The following entities are eligible to obtain a health benefit plan, as defined in Section 22777, subject to board approval: (a) A contracting agency, as defined in Section 20022, a county or special district subject to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (Chapter 3 (comm…

(a) A contracting agency and its employees and annuitants may obtain a health benefit plan, as defined in Section 22777, subject to board approval of a resolution submitted by the governing body electing to be so subject. The resolution shall be adopted by a majority vote and sha…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a contracting agency that is a city and county shall be subject to this part only with respect to employees who upon entering city and county employment from state employment had an option under state statutes to continue enrollme…

When a hospital becomes a contracting agency pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section 20057, its employees shall be deemed city employees for purposes of this part until the hospital enacts its own resolution or acts officially to terminate its participation under this part.

If the board administers a specialized health benefit plan, it may offer coverage in the specialized health benefit plan to a contracting agency that also provides coverage for its employees in a health benefit plan under this part.

Annuitants that receive benefits under this part and are former certificated employees that retired from a school employer, including the spouses and surviving spouses, are not subject to Article 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Chapter 1 of Part 5 of Division 1 of the Educati…

A contracting agency shall perform the functions necessary to enroll its employees and submit reports as may be required by the board. A county superintendent of schools shall have the responsibility of providing all information concerning the school districts within his or her j…

(a) A contracting agency that has elected to be subject to this part may not maintain any other health benefit plan or program offering hospital and medical care for its employees. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a plan operating on July 1, 2002, shall be permitted to contin…

A contracting agency may elect, by amending its contract with the board, to participate in a Medicare reimbursement program for its employees, annuitants, or family members who are enrolled in a Medicare health benefit plan under this part, as prescribed by board regulations.

A contracting agency that has elected to be subject to this part may elect to cease to be so subject by resolution adopted by a majority vote of its governing body and filed with the board on or before the deadline provided in board regulations, to be effective at the end of the …

The board may terminate the participation of a contracting agency if it fails for three months after a demand to perform any act required by this part or by board rules or regulations.

(a) There is in the State Treasury the Annuitants’ Health Care Coverage Fund that is a trust fund and a retirement fund, within the meaning of Section 17 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. Subject to the limitation provided in subdivision (b), notwithstanding Section …

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Annuitant” means any of the following: (1) An annuitant described in Section 22760. (2) A person who retires from employment with an employer described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) and who receives p…

An employer authorized by the board may elect to participate in the prefunding plan established by this article.

The board may, in its discretion and upon terms and conditions set by the board, authorize an employer to participate in the prefunding plan established by this article. The governing body of a participating employer shall enter into a contract with the board, setting forth the t…

(a) A contract entered into between an employer and the board pursuant to Section 22944 shall not create, change, or vest the obligations of an employer or the board that were created under any other contract, law, ordinance, regulation, or similar actions to provide benefits for…

(a) Any amount that would otherwise be used to permanently increase compensation pursuant to Section 19827, effective on July 1, 2009, and on July 1, 2010, shall instead be used to permanently prefund postemployment health care benefits for patrol members. The amount used to pref…

(a) (1) The state and employees in State Bargaining Unit 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18, or 19 shall prefund retiree health care, with the goal of reaching a 50-percent cost sharing of actuarially determined normal costs for both employer and employees by July 1, 2019. (2) The state and …

(a) (1) In addition to the appropriation required for state contributions to prefund retiree health care and other postemployment benefits pursuant to Section 22944.5, the Legislature hereby appropriates six hundred sixteen million dollars ($616,000,000) from the General Fund, fo…

(a) Each county shall have a board of supervisors consisting of five members. Not more than three members shall be elected at the same general election. If the terms of office of more than three members of the board expire at the same time, at the first regular meeting after Janu…

The board may make and enforce rules and regulations necessary for the government of the board, the preservation of order, and the transaction of business.

It may adopt a seal. A description and impression of the seal shall be filed in the office of the county clerk.

A majority of the members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. No act of the board shall be valid or binding unless a majority of all the members concur therein.