20250SB__030194CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-10 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-03-24 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-06-17 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-08-20 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-08-28 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-09 ENROLLED 2025-09-12 CHAPTERED 2025-10-13 APPROVED 2025-10-13 FILED 2025-10-13 2025 SB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Senator Grayson LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Grayson

An act to add

Section to the Government Code, relating to retirement. retirement County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: employees. Existing law, the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL), prescribes the rights, benefits, and duties of members of the retirement systems established pursuant to its provisions. Existing law prohibits a resolution, ordinance, contract, or contract amendment under CERL from providing retirement benefits for some, but not all, general members of a county or district.

This bill would prohibit a county or district whose officers and employees are enrolled as members of a retirement system under CERL from excluding from membership in the system any employee, group, or classification, other than those excludable officers and employees, as defined. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities and counties, including charter cities and charter counties. The bill would also include findings that its provisions are declaratory of existing law.

MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section is added to the Government Code , to read: 31566. (

a) The Legislature finds and declares that this

section is declaratory of existing law. (

b) A county or district whose officers and employees are enrolled as members of a retirement system pursuant to this

chapter shall not exclude from membership in the system any employee, group, or classification, other than those excludable officers and employees. (

c) For purposes of this section, “excludable officers and employees” mean officers and employees whose tenures may be excluded pursuant to

Section as being temporary, seasonal, intermittent, or part time only, as determined by the retirement board, or who are excluded pursuant to

Section or 31553. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that ensuring consistency for public employees’ membership in county employee retirement systems is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair as that term is used in

Section of

Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore,

Section of this act adding

Section to the Government Code applies to all cities and counties, including charter cities and charter counties.