Existing law requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to administer the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act. Existing law permits a contracting agency to elect to be subject to the act for its employees and annuitants, provided that the contracting agency and each employee or annuitant contribute a portion of the cost of providing the benefit coverage afforded under the health benefit plan approved or maintained by the board in which the employee or annuitant may be enrolled. Existing law specifies that the employer contribution of a contracting agency begins on the effective date of enrollment and is the amount fixed from time to time by resolution of the governing body of the agency. The resolution is required to be filed with the board and the contribution amount shall be effective on the first day of the second month following the month in which the resolution is received by the system. Existing law provides an optional vesting schedule, for contracting agencies, that links the employer contribution, as specified, to percentages associated with an employee's credited years of service. Under this formulation, the employer contribution for the contracting agency reaches 100% of a specified amount when the employee attains 20 years of credited service, with certain exceptions. This bill would require the employer contribution for postretirement health benefit coverage for an annuitant of the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority who is first hired on or after November 1, 2004, to be based on percentages associated with the annuitant's credited years of service. Under this formulation, the employer contribution for the contracting agency would reach 100% of a specified amount if the annuitant attained 15 years of credited service, with certain exceptions. The bill would define credited service and would require that at least 5 years of credited service to have been performed with the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority. The bill would require that employer to provide any information requested by the board that the board deems necessary to implement the section. The bill would except from the formulation described above annuitants who have retired for disability. The bill would also except annuitants who have 15 or more years of service entirely with the authority and would require the board to establish application procedures and eligibility criteria to implement this provision.
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Existing law establishes the Vision Care Program for State Annuitants, which is administered by the Department of Personnel Administration, and creates the Vision Care Program for State Annuitants Fund in the State Treasury, which is continuously appropriated, for expenditure solely for the provision of vision care benefits to state annuitants. This bill would establish a similar vision care program for specified local members, school members, and university members, and their dependents to be known as the Retired Public Employees Vision Care Program. The bill would require the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, on or before January 1, 2011, to administer the program, and would create the Retired Public Employees Vision Care Program Fund, which would be continuously appropriated for those purposes. The bill would also require the board to terminate the program upon a specified circumstance.
Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of certified public accountants and other licensees by the California Board of Accountancy. Existing law requires an accounting firm providing attest services, with certain exceptions, to complete a peer review every 3 years in order to renew its registration, if the board, prior to September 1, 2011, determines that a peer review program should be implemented and identifies the resources necessary for that implementation. This bill would instead impose a peer review requirement for all accounting firms relative to accounting and auditing practice, which would be conducted by a board-recognized peer review program. The bill would require the board to adopt emergency regulations as necessary to implement the program and to adopt, by January 1, 2010, regulations defining a substandard peer review report. The bill would require an accounting firm and a peer review program provider to file copies of substandard peer review reports with the board. The bill would also require the board to appoint a peer review oversight committee, as specified. The bill would require the board to provide a report to the Legislature and Governor, by January 1, 2013, that includes specified information on the impact of these peer review requirements on certain small firms and sole practitioners. The bill would specify that these provisions shall become inoperative on January 1, 2014, unless a later enacted statute, enacted prior to that date, deletes or extends that date. The bill would also make specified findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the value of peer review.
This measure would recognize the pioneering work of promotores and community health workers in delivering vital and cost-effective health care services in communities throughout California and declare October 2009 as California Promotores Month.
This measure would designate the month of October 2009 as Extended Opportunity Programs and Services Month to honor the mission and purposes of the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services.
This measure would make various statements regarding the importance of New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) to the California economy and would declare the necessity for the Legislature to utilize its vested powers to keep NUMMI in California.
This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 31, 2009, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
This measure would recognize the importance of California Native American Day, celebrated this year on September 25, 2009, and the concurrent California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference to the enhancement of awareness of California Indian culture.
This measure would designate the month of October 2009, and every October thereafter, as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would encourage public schools to highlight and include Italian American achievements and contributions to the culture of California and to take steps to promote the inclusion of the role and contributions of Italian Americans to the culture and history of California and the United States in elementary and secondary social science textbooks during the revision process for those textbooks.
This measure would urge the State Air Resources Board to meet the statutory requirements of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 by ensuring that its analysis of specified emission reduction measures include prescribed components.