Judges: retirement: employment.

The California Constitution provides that during the term for which a judge was selected, he or she is ineligible for public employment or public office other than judicial employment or judicial office, except that he or she may accept a part-time teaching position. The Judges' Retirement Law establishes the judges' Retirement System to provide retirement benefits for retired judges. Existing law also establishes the Judges' Retirement System II Law for judges elected or appointed on or after November 9, 1994. This bill would prohibit a judge of a court of record, upon retirement from either system, from accepting employment with any individual, or public or private entity, for one year after the date of his or her retirement if the individual, or public or private entity, appeared before the judge in connection with any contested matter within one year prior to the date of the judge's retirement.