Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
Upon retirement for service, a member is entitled to receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of:
surviving dependent parents as provided in this article.
California Government Code — §§ 21350-21390
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
Upon retirement for service, a member is entitled to receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of:
surviving dependent parents as provided in this article.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The actual amount of annuity receivable by a member upon retirement shall be the actuarial equivalent of his or her accumulated contributions.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The service retirement annuity is the sum of the annuities which are the actuarial equivalents of the normal and additional accumulated contributions of a member at the time of his or her retirement.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 133. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.
this First Tier retirement formula, with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:
included in the federal system. This reduction shall not apply to a member employed by a contracting agency that enters into a contract after July 1, 1971, and elects not to be subject to this paragraph or with respect to service rendered after the termination of coverage under the federal system with respect to the coverage group to which the member belongs.
members who are not employed by the state on or after January 1, 2000.
board.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The combined current and prior service pensions for a local miscellaneous member is a pension derived from the contribution of the employer sufficient, when added to the service retirement annuity that is derived from the accumulated normal contributions of the member at the date of retirement, to equal the fraction of one-fiftieth of the member’s final compensation set forth opposite the member’s age at retirement, taken to the preceding completed quarter year, in the following table, multiplied by the number of years of current and prior service except service in a
category of membership other than that of local miscellaneous member with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:
The fraction specified in the above table shall be reduced by one-third as applied to that part of final compensation that does not exceed four hundred dollars ($400) per month for all services of a member any of whose service has been included in the
federal system. This reduction shall not apply to a member employed by a contracting agency that enters into a contract after July 1, 1971, and who elects not to be subject to this paragraph or with respect to service rendered after the termination of coverage under the federal system with respect to the coverage group to which the member belongs.
This section shall supersede Section 21353 with respect to all local miscellaneous members who retire after the date this section becomes applicable to their respective employers.
This section shall not apply to a contracting agency nor its employees until the contracting agency elects to make all local miscellaneous members subject to it by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts or in the case of a new contract, by express provision of the contract. The operative date of this section with respect to a local miscellaneous member shall be
the effective date of the amendment to his or her employer’s contract electing to be subject to this section.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 134. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013. Pursuant to subd. (e), section is conditionally operative as prescribed in Section 21251.13.
under this retirement formula with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:
above table shall be reduced by one-third as applied to that part of final compensation that does not exceed four hundred dollars ($400) per month for all service of a member any of whose service has been included in the federal system. This subdivision shall not apply to school members whose service is included in the federal system with respect to service performed on or after January 1, 2001.
1, 2000, and who do not elect under Section 21070.5 to be subject to Second Tier benefits.
exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
understanding, or any other provision of this section, this section shall not apply to a state miscellaneous or industrial member who is employed by the state, the Legislature, the judicial branch, or the California State University for the first time and becomes a member of the system on or after January 15, 2011.
Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 846, Sec. 1. Effective September 30, 2006.
prior service except service in a category of membership other than that of local miscellaneous member with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:
(A) County of Riverside.
(B) County of Riverside Regional Park and Open-Space
District.
(C) County of Riverside Waste Resources Management District.
(D) County of Riverside Flood Control and Water Conservation District.
shall apply with respect to a local miscellaneous member on the effective date of the amendment to the Riverside County contracting agency’s contract electing to be subject to this section.
Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 118, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 2007.
prior service except service in a category of membership other than that of local miscellaneous member with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:
1, 1971, and who elects not to be subject to this subdivision or with respect to service rendered after the termination of coverage under the federal system with respect to the coverage group to which the member belongs.
amendment to his or her employer’s contract electing to be subject to this section.
Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 118, Sec. 17. Effective January 1, 2007.
prior service, except service in a category of membership other than that of a local miscellaneous member, with which the member is entitled to be credited at retirement:
1, 1971, and elects not to be subject to this subdivision or with respect to service rendered after the termination of coverage under the federal system with respect to the coverage group to which the member belongs.
the amendment to his or her employer’s contract electing to be subject to this section.
Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 21, Sec. 14. Effective June 25, 2001. Applicable from January 1, 2000, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 21.
Notwithstanding Sections 21353, 21354, and 21354.1, if the modification to the federal-state agreement occurred on or after July 1, 1971, whenever the fraction of final compensation is reduced pursuant to Section 21353, 21354, or 21354.1 because service of a member has been included in the federal system, the reduction shall apply only as to service after the effective date of the member’s coverage under the federal system. This section shall apply to those members whose effective date of retirement is on or after July 1, 1971.
Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 199, Sec. 1. (AB 2404) Effective January 1, 2017.
21450) and Article 7 (commencing with Section 21470) shall not apply to an employee who is participating in reduced worktime for partial service retirement.
partial service retirement, one year of state service credited under this system; or (2) if he or she has rendered one year or more of state service while participating in reduced worktime for partial service retirement, a current service pension, or current and prior service pensions, as the case may be, based on the total years of service with which the member is entitled to be credited, calculated on the basis of the formula currently applicable to the employment in which the service was rendered. A member shall receive service credit for service during participation in reduced worktime for partial retirement and service credited at the time of the election to participate in reduced worktime for partial retirement.
Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 199, Sec. 2. (AB 2404) Effective January 1, 2017.
election under Section 21465 or 21483, his or her current service pension, or current and prior service pensions, as the case may be, as it was prior to his or her reinstatement, adjusted for any service on which the pension was based that was included in coverage of the federal system during reinstatement according to the formula applicable to the service in employment for which he or she was retired, and further adjusted according to any change after reinstatement in the provisions governing the calculation of his or her pension that would have applied to him or her had he or she continued in retirement but been subject to the formula applied in the first adjustment; or, for state miscellaneous and state industrial service subject to Section 21076, in lieu of (2), plus (3) a current service pension, or current and prior service pensions, as the case may be, as it would have been prior to his or her reinstatement under the formula applicable to Section 21076, adjusted for any service on which the pension
was based that was included in coverage of the federal system during reinstatement according to the formula applicable to the service in employment for which he or she was retired, and further adjusted according to any change after reinstatement in the provisions governing the calculations of his or her pension that would have applied to him or her had he or she continued in retirement and been subject to the formula applicable to Section 21076, or if he or she has rendered one year or more of state service after reinstatement, in lieu of (2) or (3), plus (4), a current service pension based on current service rendered prior to reinstatement, calculated on the basis of the formula currently applicable to the employment in which the service was rendered but on the basis of an age taken to the preceding completed quarter year but not less than the minimum retirement age applicable to him or her at his or her last retirement and determined by deducting from his or her age at his or her subsequent retirement,
the aggregate time during which he or she was under retirement. For a member reinstated from nonindustrial disability retirement, the current service pension upon his or her service retirement after attaining an age one year less than the minimum age at which he or she could have retired without an actuarial discount because of age in the employment from which he or she was last retired, or upon his or her disability retirement after attaining the minimum age, and subsequent to reinstatement, shall be calculated in the manners described in the preceding sentence, but the age determined upon subsequent retirement after rendering at least one year of state service credited under this system shall not be taken at less than one year less than the minimum age if the subsequent retirement is for service, or the minimum age if the retirement is for disability.
allowance prior to reinstatement was paid pursuant to his or her election under Section 21461, 21461.5, 21479, or 21480 shall be reduced by the actuarial equivalent, on the date of retirement subsequent to reinstatement, of the amount (converted as below), if any, by which:
The amount determined by the above formula shall be converted to an amount equaling the actuarial equivalent on the date of
reinstatement and this latter amount shall be the basis of the actuarial equivalent on the date of retirement subsequent to reinstatement.
Actuarial equivalents required by this section shall be based on the interest rate and mortality tables in use by this system on the date of retirement subsequent to reinstatement.
industrial service subject to Section 21076, the current service pension payable for any credited service for which a current service pension was paid prior to reinstatement shall not be less than the current service pension that would have been payable on the date of the subsequent retirement had the member’s retirement been subject to the formula under Section 21076 and had not been reinstated, adjusted, however, by any reduction under this section because of an election under Section 21461, 21461.5, 21479, or 21480 and, for any service so credited that was included in coverage of the federal system during reinstatement, according to the formula applicable to the service in employment from which he or she was retired.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 162. Effective January 1, 1997.
Notwithstanding Section 21357, the retirement allowance of a state member, other than a university member, payable upon retirement within one year of reinstatement from an earlier retirement of six months or less and based on service prior to reinstatement shall not include any allowance based on service credited under Section 20963.
This section shall not apply to school members.
Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 328, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2006.
Notwithstanding Section 21357, in determining the method of calculation of subsequent retirement benefits for a university employee who, on the date of reemployment and reinstatement from retirement, did not have the right to elect membership in this system, the service rendered under the University of California Retirement Plan after reemployment and reinstatement shall be considered service rendered under this system.
Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 21, Sec. 16. Effective June 25, 2001. Applicable from January 1, 2000, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 21.
compensation set forth opposite his or her age at retirement taken to the preceding completed quarter year, in the following table, multiplied by the number of years of patrol service and local safety service subject to this section with which he or she is credited at retirement:
retirement annuity related to that service, equals 75 percent of final compensation.
compensation.
by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts or, in the case of contracts made after the date this section is operative, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to the provisions of this section.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 135. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013. Pursuant to subd. (h), section is conditionally operative as prescribed in Section 21251.13.
combined current and prior service pensions under this section for all service to all employers exceed an amount that, when added to the service retirement annuity related to that service, equals 85 percent of final compensation. For state patrol members with respect to service for all state employers under this section, the benefit shall not exceed 90 percent of final compensation. If the pension relates to service to more than one employer and would otherwise exceed that maximum, the pension payable with respect to each employer shall be reduced in the same proportion as the allowance based on service to that employer bears to the total allowance computed as though there were no limit, so that the total of the pensions shall equal the maximum. Where a state or local member has service under this section with both state and local agency employers, the higher maximum shall apply and the additional benefit shall be funded by increasing the member’s pension payable with respect to the employer for whom the
member performed the service subject to the higher maximum.
electing to be subject to this section.
21251.13.
Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 62, Sec. 137. Effective January 1, 2004. Inoperative January 1, 2008, by its own provisions.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 136. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.
number of years of state peace officer/firefighter service or local safety service subject to this section with which he or she is credited at retirement:
pension payable with respect to the employer for whom the member performed the service subject to the higher maximum.
Corrections Bargaining Unit No. 6, Protective Services and Public Safety Bargaining Unit No. 7, or Firefighters Bargaining Unit No. 8, in accordance with a memorandum of understanding reached between the state and the exclusive bargaining agent in the respective unit pursuant to Chapter 10.3 (commencing with Section 3512) of Division 4 of Title 1.
subdivision (a) of Section 20396 if authorized by, and in accordance with, a memorandum of understanding reached between the Trustees of the California State University and the recognized employee organization pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1.
shall be as provided for in the memorandum of understanding.
the state for the first time and becomes a state peace officer/firefighter member of the system on or after January 15, 2011, and is represented by State Bargaining Unit 6 or 7. With respect to related state peace officer/firefighter members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
memorandum of understanding that is current and in effect on January 15, 2011, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling while it remains in effect. Upon expiration of the memorandum of understanding that is in effect and current on January 15, 2011, this section shall be controlling and may not be superseded by a subsequent memorandum of understanding.
subject to this section.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 137. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013. Pursuant to subd. (i), section is conditionally operative as prescribed in Section 21251.13.
officer/firefighter service or local safety service subject to this section with which he or she is credited at retirement:
service under this section with both state and local agency employers, the higher maximum shall apply and the additional benefit shall be funded by increasing the member’s pension payable with respect to the employer for whom the member performed the service subject to the higher maximum.
to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts or, in the case of contracts made after the date this section becomes operative, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section. The operative date of this section for a local safety member shall be the effective date of the amendment to his or her employer’s contract electing to be subject to this section.
earnings of a retired person and modification of the conditions and qualifications required for retirement for disability as it may find appropriate because of the earlier age of service retirement made possible by the benefits under this section.
is represented by State Bargaining Unit 5. With respect to related state patrol members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
their status in writing to the board.
memorandum of understanding, or any other provision of this section, this section shall not apply to those peace officer/firefighter members in State Bargaining Units 6 and 7 first employed by the state on or after January 15, 2011.
Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 778, Sec. 3. Effective October 10, 1999.
Amended by Stats. 2010, 6th Ex. Sess., Ch. 3, Sec. 7. (SB 22 6x) Effective January 7, 2011.
age of 50 years, multiplied by the number of years of state peace officer/firefighter service subject to this section with which he or she is credited at retirement.
part with state or local agency employers, the higher maximum shall apply and the additional benefit shall be funded by increasing the member’s pension payable with respect to the state employer.
21363.1 with respect to peace officer/firefighter service for members employed by the California State University police department on or after the date a memorandum of understanding, or action by the Trustees of the California State University regarding related management positions, makes this section applicable to these members.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 138. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.
state employers under this section, the current service pension and the combined current and prior service pension under this section shall not exceed an amount that, when added to the service retirement annuity related to that service, equals 90 percent of final compensation. If the pension relates to service to more than one employer and would otherwise exceed that maximum, the pension payable with respect to each employer shall be reduced in the same proportion as the allowance based on service to that employer bears to the total allowance computed as though there were no limit, so that the total of the pensions shall equal the maximum.
officer/firefighter members in related managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, provided the Department of Human Resources has approved their inclusion in writing to the board.
21363.1, whichever is applicable, with respect to state peace officer/firefighter members and service as defined herein.
related state peace officer/firefighter members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 139. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.
state employers under this section, the current service pension and the combined current and prior service pension under this section may not exceed an amount that, when added to the service retirement annuity related to that service, equals 90 percent of final compensation. If the pension relates to service to more than one employer and would otherwise exceed that maximum, the pension payable with respect to each employer shall be reduced in the same proportion as the allowance based on service to that employer bears to the total allowance computed as though there were no limit, so that the total of the pensions shall equal the maximum.
apply to state peace officer/firefighter members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions that are related to the members described in paragraph (1) and to officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service and who are in positions that are related to the members described in paragraph (1), if the Department of Human Resources has approved their inclusion in writing to the board.
branch of state government who are not members of the civil service and who are in positions that are related to the members described in paragraph (1), provided the Department of Human Resources has approved their inclusion in writing to the board.
this section.
Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 21, Sec. 23. Effective June 25, 2001. Applicable from January 1, 2000, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 21.
A contracting agency may elect to be subject to Section 21362, 21362.2, or 21363.1 with respect to only those local safety members who are local police officers, those who are local firefighters, and those who are local safety members as defined in Section 20421 as local safety members.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 167. Effective January 1, 1997.
If, pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, Kings County enters into a binding memorandum of understanding and agrees to the application of this section, the county may elect to be subject to Section 21362 with respect to only those local safety members who are county peace officers as defined by Section 20436.
This section shall not apply to Kings County until the county elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of
contracts or, in the case of contracts made on or after January 1, 1988, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The combined prior and current service pensions for patrol members and local safety members, other than local safety members to whom Section 21362, 21368, or 21369 applies, upon retirement at or after age 55 is a pension derived from contributions of the employer that, when added to that portion of the service retirement annuity that is derived from the accumulated normal contributions of the member, shall equal a percentage of his or her final compensation, multiplied by the number of years of patrol, fire, police, or county peace officer service, the percentage to
be 21/2or, if less, the percentage obtained by division of 50 percent by the difference between age 55 and the member’s age at his or her birthday nearest to the date of his or her first entry into any service to which this section, former Section 21252.10, as amended by Chapter 1657 of the Statutes of 1971, or former Section 21252.2, as amended by Chapter 752 of the Statutes of 1969, prior to their repeal by Chapter 1098 of the Statutes of 1972 applied, whether or not the service is credited at retirement, increased, as to service following an absence from employment to which any of those sections applies, by the number of completed years of the absence. Any member entering that service at or after age 55 shall be deemed, for purposes of this section, to have entered the service at age 54.
Upon retirement for service prior to attaining age 55, the percentage of
final compensation payable for each year of credited service that is subject to this section shall be the product of the percentage that would become payable at age 55 or, if greater, the age at which the member would complete 20 years of service under Section 21366 were he or she to continue in employment, multiplied by the factor set forth in the following table for his or her actual age at retirement:
The amendment to this section by Chapter 941 of the Statutes of 1968 shall apply only to those members retiring on and after December 1, 1968. Current and prior service pensions of those members retired prior to December 1, 1968 shall be continued in accordance with the provisions of this part as they existed on November 30, 1968.
This section shall not apply to any local safety member in the employ of an employer not subject to this section on March 4, 1972.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The fraction or percentage of final compensation, for purposes of calculating the combined prior and current service pensions under Section 21362 or 21366 for a local safety member retiring after the effective date of his or her coverage under the federal system, but prior to termination of the coverage for members in his or her employment, shall be reduced by one-third as applied to that part of the member’s final compensation that does not exceed four hundred dollars ($400) per month.
This section shall not apply to any
contracting agency nor to the employees of any contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts, or, in the case of contracts made after October 1, 1965, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.
This section and Section 21362 or 21366, as the case may be, shall supersede Section 21368 with respect to all service to a contracting agency electing to be subject hereto. However, members in employment of the contracting agency on the effective date of the contract amendment subjecting the agency and its employees to this section and Section 21366 may elect, in accordance with board rules, to continue to be subject to Section 21368, and the contracting agency shall be subject to Section 21368 rather than this section with respect to members who so elect. The election shall cease to be effective if, prior to the
member’s retirement, his or her employer elects to be subject to Section 21362 or 21369 or elects to terminate coverage of the federal system for persons in the member’s employment.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The combined current and prior service pensions for a local safety member who is an employee of a contracting agency that is subject to this section, is an annual pension that when added to the service retirement annuity that is derived from the accumulated normal contributions of the member shall equal the sum of the following:
The temporary annuity under subdivision (a) of this section shall not be subject to the optional settlements under Article 6
(commencing with Section 21450) and shall be payable monthly until the retired member attains or would have attained age 65. Should his or her death occur prior to age 65, the commuted value of any remaining installments shall be paid to his or her designated beneficiary in the manner provided in former Section 21332.5, as added by Chapter 1264 of the Statutes of 1953, for payment of death benefits under optional settlement one.
The agency’s liability for prior service shall be in the same proportion to the total reserves required as the years of credited prior service bear to the total years of credited service. The agency’s liability for current service shall consist of the remainder of the total reserves required after deducting the liability for prior service and the accumulated normal contributions of the member.
This section shall apply only to a contracting agency that elected prior to October 1, 1965, by express
provision of its contract or amendment thereto to be subject hereto.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 140. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.
pension for any other state safety member based on service to which it would have applied had the member, on July 1, 1971, been in employment described in Section 20403 or 20404.
has service under this section with both state and local agency employers, the higher maximum shall apply and the additional benefit shall be funded by increasing the member’s pension payable with respect to the employer for whom the member performed the service subject to the higher maximum.
apply to a state safety member who is employed by the state or the California State University for the first time and becomes a state safety member of the system on or after January 15, 2011. With respect to related state safety members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
subject to Section 21369.2 so long as their memorandum of understanding is in effect. Upon expiration of the memorandum of understanding, notwithstanding Section 3517.8, this section shall be controlling and may not be superseded by a subsequent memorandum of understanding.
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 141. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013. Pursuant to subd. (g), section is conditionally operative as prescribed in Section 21251.13.
Legislature reserves the right to subsequently modify or amend this part in order to completely effectuate the intent and purposes of this section and the right to not provide any new comparable advantages if disadvantages to employees result from any modification or amendment.
the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
Amended (as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 296, Sec. 129) by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 143. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.
product of 2 percent multiplied by the factor set forth in the following table for his or her actual age at retirement:
member performed the service subject to the higher maximum.
officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
to the first day of the pay period following the effective date of this subdivision, who become subject to representation by State Bargaining Unit 12, 16, 18, or 19 on or after the first day of the pay period following the effective date of this subdivision.
Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 135, Sec. 74. Effective January 1, 2001.
the preceding completed quarter year in the following table, multiplied by the number of years of service credited to him or her as a local safety member subject to this section at retirement.
section.
than one employer and would otherwise exceed the maximum, the pension payable with respect to each employer shall be reduced in the same proportion as the allowance based on service to the employer bears to the total allowance computed as though there were no limit, so that the total of the pensions shall equal the maximum.
representative employee organizations agree to be subject to this provision.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The combined current and prior service pensions, disability retirement allowance or continued allowance with respect to a retired member whose effective date of retirement was prior to April 1, 1973, and who was a forestry, warden, or law enforcement member on March 31, 1973, is his or her current service pension, prior service pension, or combined prior and current service pension, disability retirement allowance or continued allowance as it was under this part as it read and applied to him or her on March 31, 1973, subject to adjustment under Article 3 (commencing
with Section 21310).
Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 555, Sec. 41. Effective January 1, 2000.
The combined current and prior service pensions of a state safety member who on March 31, 1973, was a forestry member not subject to former Section 21252.3, as added by Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1970, shall be determined in accordance with this part as it read and applied to him or her on March 31, 1973, and the member shall not become subject to Section 21369 or 21369.1 unless he or she thereafter accepts appointment to a position in another state department in which he or she is a state safety member, and in that event he or she shall be subject to Section
21369 or 21369.1, as applicable, with respect to all of his or her state safety service.
Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 555, Sec. 42. Effective January 1, 2000.
The combined current and prior service pensions for a state safety member who on March 31, 1973, was a law enforcement member not subject to Section 21369, shall be determined in accordance with this part as it read and applied to him or her on March 31, 1973, rather than Section 21369 if under those provisions he or she is entitled to a retirement allowance exceeding 2 percent of final compensation per year of his or her law enforcement service, unless he or she elects in writing to be subject to Section 21369 and the election is filed in the office of the board
within 30 calendar days following April 1, 1973. Any member who does not so elect and thereafter accepts appointment to a position in another state department in which he or she is a state safety member shall become subject, upon that acceptance, to Section 21369 or 21369.1, as applicable, with respect to all of his or her state safety service.
Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 555, Sec. 43. Effective January 1, 2000.
The combined current and prior service pensions for a state safety member who on March 31, 1973, was a warden member shall be determined in accordance with this part as it read and applied to him or her on March 31, 1973, if on March 31, 1973, he or she was either:
she entered warden service after attaining the age of 35 years, unless he or she elects in writing to be subject to Section 21369 and the election is filed in the office of the board within 30 calendar days following April 1, 1973.
Any member who thereafter accepts an appointment to a position in another state department in which he or she is a state safety member shall become subject to Section 21369 or 21369.1, as applicable, with respect to all of his or her state safety service.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and with respect only to an election by a contracting agency to amend its contract to become subject to Section 21369, 21370, or 21363, instead of Section 21366, the following shall apply:
21369 with respect to all safety service performed for the contracting agency.
21369, or 21370, as applicable, or Section 21366 with respect to all service with that contracting agency prior to the effective date of the contract amendment. The election shall be effective only if the reinstated member remains in the employment for at least one year subsequent to reinstatement.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
Whenever a contracting agency amends its contract to become subject to Section 21370 instead of Section 21369, a member who previously elected, pursuant to Section 21375, to remain subject to Section 21366, or a member who entered employment under Section 21366 after attaining age 30 and continued to be subject to that section, shall elect in writing within 90 days of notification by the board whether to be subject to Section 21366 or Section 21370.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
If a state safety member retires for service before attaining age 55, or, in the case of the member who continues subject to the current and prior service pension provision for retirement of warden and forestry members at age 60, his or her prior and current service pensions shall be reduced to that amount that the value of the pensions as deferred to age 55, or age 60, respectively, will purchase at the actual age of retirement on the basis of the mortality tables and actuarial interest rate in effect on December 1, 1970, under this system with respect to those
members.
Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 172. Effective January 1, 1997.
credited with 20 years of continuous state service and retires after attaining age 60, and his or her retirement allowance is less than one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per year and less than his or her final compensation, his or her prior or current service pension, as the case may be, shall be increased so as to cause his or her total retirement allowance from this system, and from the retiring annuities system of the university, if any, to amount to one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per year, or his or her final compensation, whichever is less.
If a member to whom this section applies is employed by more than one employer, his or her aggregate retirement allowances shall be taken into account irrespective of the employer.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The prior service pensions for state members are derived from contributions of the state.
Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.
The prior service pension for local members is a pension derived from the contributions of the employing contracting agency if and as provided for in the contract between the board and the contracting agency.
Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 199, Sec. 3. (AB 2404) Effective January 1, 2017.
The prior service pension of a member reinstated from service retirement, upon his or her subsequent service retirement, shall be in the same amount as his or her prior service pension prior to his or her reinstatement, adjusted for any service on which the pension was based that was included in coverage of the federal system during reinstatement according to the formula applicable to the service in employment from which he or she was retired, and further adjusted according to any change in the provisions governing the calculation of the pensions, using the formula applied in the first adjustment, made after the reinstatement and applicable to pensions being paid at the date of the change if the subsequent retirement occurs before he or she renders after his or her
reinstatement at least one year of state service credited under this system. Otherwise, the prior service pension calculated on the basis of an age, taken to the preceding completed quarter year but not less than the minimum retirement age applicable to him or her at his or her last retirement, and determined by deducting from his or her age at his or her subsequent retirement, the aggregate time during which he or she was under retirement. For such a member reinstated from nonindustrial disability retirement, the prior service pension upon his or her service retirement after attaining an age one year less than the minimum age at which he or she could have retired without an actuarial discount because of age in the employment from which he or she was last retired, or upon his or her disability retirement after attaining the minimum age, and subsequent to reinstatement, shall be calculated in the manners described in the preceding sentence, but the age determined upon subsequent retirement after rendering at
least one year of state service, shall not be taken at less than one year less than the minimum age if the subsequent retirement is for service, or the minimum age if the retirement is for disability.
The prior service pension otherwise payable under this section to a member whose allowance prior to reinstatement was paid pursuant to his or her election under Section 21461, 21461.5, 21479, or 21480 shall be reduced by the actuarial equivalent, on the date of retirement subsequent to reinstatement, of the amount, if any (converted as below), by which:
payable, had the election not been made, during the time subsequent to the period and prior to reinstatement over the total amount actually paid during that time.
The amount determined by the above formula shall be converted to an amount equaling the actuarial equivalent on the date of reinstatement. The latter amount shall be the basis of the actuarial equivalent, on the date of retirement subsequent to reinstatement.
Actuarial equivalents required by this section shall be based on the interest rate and mortality tables in use by this system on the date of retirement subsequent to reinstatement.
Notwithstanding this section, or any other provision of this part, the prior service pension payable to any member subject to this section who rendered one year or more of state service credited under this system after reinstatement on retirement for service subsequent to reinstatement
from service retirement for any credited service for which a prior service pension was paid prior to reinstatement shall not be less than the prior service pension that would be payable on the date of the subsequent retirement had the member not been reinstated, adjusted, however, by any reduction under this section because of an election under Section 21461, 21461.5, 21479, or 21480 and, for any service so credited that was included in coverage of the federal system during reinstatement, according to the formula applicable to the service in employment from which he or she was retired.
Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 796, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.
Notwithstanding Sections 21362, 21362.2, 21363, 21363.1, 21369, 21370, and 21389, for local safety members who retire on or after January 1, 2002, and with respect to all local safety service rendered to a contracting agency that is subject to any of those sections, the benefit limit shall be 90 percent of final compensation.