SB 1166: Public Employees’ Retirement System: contracting agency: contributions.

Existing law, the Public Employees Retirement Law (PERL), establishes the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to members of the system, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations, and is administered by its board of administration. PERL authorizes a public agency to contract to make its employees members of PERS and prescribes a process for this. PERL prohibits participating employers from failing or refusing to pay their contributions on time. PERL authorizes the board to charge interest on agency contributions due and unpaid.

This bill would require a contracting agency that fails to make its required employer contributions on time time, and that fails to cure the delinquency within 7 days, to notify members and retired members who are current or past employees of that agency, or their beneficiaries, of the agencys delinquency by mail within 30 days of the payment having become delinquent. The bill would require the board to provide contact information in a specified format to contracting agencies for the purpose of providing notice to members and retired members who are current or past employees of that agency, or to their beneficiaries, and would prescribe a process in this regard. The bill would immunize contracting agencies for failure to provide notice if the contact information is incomplete or incorrect.