Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Board” means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement Board, or the board of retirement or board of investments of a retirement system established purs…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, state pension systems may, subject to and consistent with their fiduciary duties and the standard for prudent investment set forth in Section 20190 of this code and Section 17 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, establish cre…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the rights of a member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, the State Teachers’ Retirement System, or a retirement system established under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, because of membership in another re…

(a) Every public investment fund shall require each alternative investment vehicle in which it invests to make the following disclosures at least annually: (1) The fees and expenses that the public investment fund pays directly to the alternative investment vehicle, the fund mana…

It is the intent of this chapter to authorize and encourage the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to regularly cooperate and share information that may assist both systems in developing and implementing appropriate investment strategies…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, confidential information or documents relating to investments in the possession of the Public Employees’ Retirement System or the State Teachers’ Retirement System shall not lose their confidential status due to the fact that the inform…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public pension fund or retirement system of this state or local agency of this state may contract with a savings and loan association doing business in this state under terms by which the association shall receive deposits of mo…

This article shall be known as the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013.

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in this article, on and after January 1, 2013, this article shall apply to all state and local public retirement systems and to their participating employers, including the Public Employees’ Retirement System, the State Te…

For the purposes of this article: (a) “Defined benefit formula” means a formula used by the retirement system to determine a retirement benefit based on age, years of service, and pensionable compensation earned by an employee up to the limit defined in Section 7522.10. (b) “Empl…

(a) A joint powers authority formed on or after January 1, 2013, and formed pursuant to the provisions of the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5), where at least one member agency provided benefits on or before December 31, 2012, a…

(a) On and after January 1, 2013, each public retirement system shall modify its plan or plans to comply with the requirements of this section for each public employer that participates in the system. (b) Whenever pensionable compensation, as defined in Section 7522.34, is used i…

Except as provided in subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 7522.02, each public employer and each public retirement system that offers a defined benefit plan shall offer only the defined benefit formulas established pursuant to Sections 7522.20 and 7522.25 to new members.

(a) A public employer that does not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan before January 1, 2013, shall not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan for any employee on or after January 1, 2013. (b) A public employer that provides a supplemental defined benefit plan, includi…

(a) Each retirement system that offers a defined benefit plan for nonsafety members of the system shall use the formula prescribed by this section. The defined benefit plan shall provide a pension at retirement for service equal to the percentage of the member’s final compensatio…

(a) Each retirement system that offers a defined benefit plan for safety members of the system shall use one or more of the defined benefit formulas prescribed by this section. A member may retire for service under any of the formulas in this section after five years of service a…

(a) This section shall apply to all public employers and to all new members. Equal sharing of normal costs between public employers and public employees shall be the standard. The standard shall be that employees pay at least 50 percent of normal costs and that employers not pay …

For the purposes of determining a retirement benefit to be paid to a new member of a public retirement system, the following shall apply: (a) Final compensation shall mean the highest average annual pensionable compensation earned by the member during a period of at least 36 cons…

(a) “Pensionable compensation” of a new member of any public retirement system means the normal monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member paid in cash to similarly situated members of the same group or class of employment for services rendered on a full-time basis during norm…

(a) A public employer shall not provide to a public employee who is elected or appointed, a trustee, excluded from collective bargaining, exempt from civil service, or a manager any vesting schedule for the employer contribution payable for postretirement health benefits that is …

(a) In addition to any other benefit limitation prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a public retirement benefit paid to a new member of a public retirement system, the maximum salary, compensation, or payrate taken into account under the plan for any year shall not…

(a) A public employer shall not offer a plan of replacement benefits for members and any survivors or beneficiaries whose retirement benefits are limited by Section 415 of Title 26 of the United States Code. This section shall apply to new members. (b) A public retirement system …

This section shall apply to all public employers and to all public employees: (a) Any enhancement to a public employee’s retirement formula or retirement benefit adopted on or after January 1, 2013, shall apply only to service performed on or after the operative date of the enhan…

(a) A public retirement system shall not allow the purchase of nonqualified service credit, as defined by Section 415(n)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Sec. 415(n)(3)(C)). (b) Subdivision (a) shall not apply to an official application to purchase nonqualifi…

(a) Final compensation of a member for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit resulting from service as an elective or appointed officer on a city council or a county board of supervisors accrued while in membership of a public retirement system shall be based on the h…

(a) In any fiscal year, a public employer’s contribution to a defined benefit plan, in combination with employee contributions to that defined benefit plan, shall not be less than the normal cost rate, as defined in Section 7522.30, for that defined benefit plan for that fiscal y…

(a) This section shall apply to any person who is receiving a pension benefit from a public retirement system and shall supersede any other provision in conflict with this section. (b) A retired person shall not serve, be employed by, or be employed through a contract directly by…

(a) This section shall apply to any retired person who is receiving a pension benefit from a public retirement system and is first appointed on or after January 1, 2013, to a salaried position on a state board or commission. This section shall supersede any other provision in con…

(a) This section shall apply to any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2006. (b) If an elected public officer is convicted during or after holding office of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering…

(a) This section shall apply to a public employee first employed by a public employer or first elected or appointed to an office before January 1, 2013, and, on and after that date, Section 7522.70 shall not apply. (b) (1) If a public employee is convicted by a state or federal t…

(a) This section shall apply to a public employee first employed by a public employer or first elected or appointed to an office on or after January 1, 2013, and on and after that date, Section 7522.70 shall not apply. (b) (1) If a public employee is convicted by a state or feder…

(a) If a public employee, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 7522.04, retires while under investigation by a public employer for misconduct arising out of or in the performance of the public employee’s official duties, in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connecti…

(a) It is the policy of the state, except during the operation of subdivision (c), that the workweek of the state employee shall be 40 hours, and the workday of state employees eight hours, except that workweeks and workdays of a different number of hours may be established in or…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 19851, the Department of Corrections shall establish a standardized overtime cap for correctional officers not to exceed 80 hours per month. (2) This subdivision shall not relieve the state of any obligation under a memorandum of understanding for …

When the Governor determines that the best interests of the state would be served thereby, the Governor may require that the 40-hour workweek established as the state policy in Section 19851 shall be worked in four days in any state agency or part thereof.

(a) All state employees shall be entitled to the following holidays: January 1, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, March 31, the last Monday in May, July 4, the first Monday in September, November 11, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, December …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 19853, this section shall apply to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 5. (b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), all employees shall be entitled to the following holidays: January 1, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, M…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 19853 or 19853.1, a state employee, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, may elect to receive eight hours of holiday credit for observance of a holiday or ceremony of the state employee’s religion, culture, or heritage in lieu of receiving ei…

(a) Every employee, upon completion of six months of his or her initial probationary period in state service, shall be entitled to one personal holiday per fiscal year. The personal holiday shall be credited to each full-time employee on the first day of July. No employee shall l…

Any state employee who was laid off from the Department of Employment on the 31st day of December 1941 and thereafter entered the employ of the United States Employment Service and who returned to state service prior to November 16, 1946 and any person who entered the employ of t…

(a) The department shall provide by rule for the regulation and accumulation of vacations for civil service employees and may provide for vacations for such employees who are employed less than full time. The department shall prescribe the methods by which employees leaving the e…

(a) It shall be within the discretion of the department to define the effect of an absence from the payroll of 10 working days or less in any calendar month upon credit for vacation. (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of unde…

(a) The appointing power of any officer or employee not a member of the civil service may promulgate regulations governing vacations for these officers or employees. In the absence of these regulations, the rules of the department relating to the regulation and methods of accumul…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), following completion of six months of continuous service, for each completed calendar month of service, except as provided in Section 19858.2, each state officer and employee who is employed full time shall receive credit for vacation wi…

The department may provide by rule for the regulation and accumulation of vacation credits on an hourly basis to conform to the frequency of the pay period for all or certain designated employees. For those employees whose vacation credits are accrued on an hourly basis pursuant …

This article shall apply to all of the following: (a) Employees who are excluded from the definition of “state employee” in subdivision (c) of Section 3513. (b) Nonelected officers of the executive branch of government exempt from civil service designated by the department as eli…

In lieu of the sick leave and vacation provisions of Sections 19858.1 and 19859, eligible employees, as defined by subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 19858.3, may elect to participate in an annual leave program. Each employee who has elected to participate in the annual le…

In lieu of sick leave and vacation provisions of Sections 19858.1 and 19859, eligible employees, as defined by subdivision (d) of Section 19858.3, may participate in an annual leave program subject to the conditions of the appropriate memorandum of understanding. Each employee wh…

Notwithstanding Section 19839, upon applying for retirement, a person entitled to a lump-sum payment for any unused or accumulated annual leave may elect to take all or any portion of that annual leave rather than accept the lump-sum payment on or prior to the effective date of r…

(a) Following completion of one month of continuous service, except as otherwise provided in Section 19863.1, each state officer and employee who is employed full time shall be allowed one day of credit for sick leave with pay. Thereafter, for each additional calendar month of se…