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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Follow Up on the Pension Bill

Yesterday, we posted an item on the deal on public pensions reached by the governor and legislature.  Today, I looked for the actual bill's language for a formal exclusion of UC’s pension plan from the deal.  I think I found it in the language reproduced below from the bill, AB 340.

SEC. 19. Section 20281.5 of the Government Code is amended to read:
20281.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 20281, a person who becomes a state miscellaneous member or state industrial member of the system on or after the effective date of this section because the person is first employed by the state and qualifies for membership shall be subject to the provisions of this section…
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), this section shall not apply to any of the following:
   (1) Persons who are already members or annuitants of the system at the time they are first employed by the state.
   (2) Employees of the California State University, or the legislative or judicial branch of state government.
   (3) Members of the Judges' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System II, the Legislators' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, or the University of California Retirement Plan. …

The full bill containing the governor/legislature pension plan is at:


The bill – if you look at it – has dates on the first page going back into 2011 because it is one of those “gut and amend” pieces of legislation used for last-minute purposes.  To get around rules banning new bills being introduced, a bill that has gone nowhere but isn’t technically dead yet is amended by completely removing its original contents and substituting entirely new language.

In the end, despite how it was produced, it’s just a plain bill:

UPDATE: An additional document formalizing the UC exclusion is the conference committee report describing the bill:

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