SB 1379: Public Employees’ Retirement Law: reinstatement: County of Solano.

The Public Employees Retirement Law creates the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), which provides pension and other benefits to members of the system and prescribes limitations on the service that retired members may perform, without the member reinstating in the system, for employers that participate in the system. The California Public Employees Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) also prescribes limitations on the activities of retired members of these retirement systems, which supersede the provisions of PERS with which they conflict. Under both PERS and PEPRA, a retired member is generally subject to a limit of 960 hours of employment within a calendar or fiscal year, depending on the administrator of the system, for specified employers without reinstating in the system.

This bill would create an exception from the above-described limit for hours worked by a retired person in an appointment by the Solano County Sheriffs Office to perform a function or functions regularly performed by a deputy sheriff, evidence technician, or communications operator, subject to meeting certain requirements. The bill would limit the number of appointments made under these provisions to 20. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Solano.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.