Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20280. Section 20280.
This article does not apply to persons expressly excluded from membership in this system by Article 2 (commencing with Section 20300) and Article 3 (commencing with Section 20320).
ARTICLE 1. Compulsory Membership [20280. - 20285.]
Cal. Government Code - GOV 1.
in effectCal. Government Code - GOV § 20281. Section 20281.
All members of the retirement system immediately prior to the time this part becomes operative continue to be members of this system.
An employee of a contracting agency on the effective date of its contract with the board becomes a member immediately.
Every other employee becomes a member upon his or her entry into employment.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20281.5. Section 20281.5.
(a)
Notwithstanding Section 20281, a person who becomes a state miscellaneous member or state industrial member of the system on or after the effective date of this section because the person is first employed by the state and qualifies for membership shall be subject to the provisions of this section.
(b)
Members subject to this section shall not accrue credit for service in the system and shall not make employee contributions to the system, including the contributions set forth in Section 20677.4, for employment with the state until the first day of the first pay period commencing 24 months after becoming a member of the system.
(c)
Notwithstanding
subdivision (a), this section shall not apply to any of the following:
(1)
Persons who are already members or annuitants of the system at the time they are first employed by the state.
(2)
Employees of the California State University, or the legislative or judicial branch of state government.
(3)
Members of the Judges’ Retirement System, the Judges’ Retirement System II, the Legislators’ Retirement System, the State Teachers’ Retirement System, or the University of California Retirement Plan.
(4)
Persons who are members of a reciprocal retirement system and whose employment was subject to a reciprocal retirement system within the six months prior to membership in this system.
(5)
Persons
whose service is not included in the federal system.
(6)
Persons who are employed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol as students at the department’s training school established pursuant to Section 2262 of the Vehicle Code.
(7)
Persons who had ceased to be members pursuant to Section 20340 or 21075.
(8)
Persons who are National Guard members pursuant to Section 20380.5.
(d)
A separation of employment does not alter the 24-month period described by subdivision (b). A member who separates from state employment shall remain subject to this section if he or she returns to state employment as a state miscellaneous or state industrial member within that 24-month period.
(e)
Any
regulations adopted by the board to implement the requirements of this section shall not be subject to the review and approval of the Office of Administrative Law, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3. The regulations shall become effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.
(f)
This section shall not apply to any person who first becomes a state miscellaneous member or a state industrial member on or after July 1, 2013.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20282. Section 20282.
All officers, warrant officers, and enlisted persons who after October 1, 1961, are placed on full-time active duty with the office of the Adjutant General, pursuant to Sections 142, 321, 340 and 551, or former Section 167 of the Military and Veterans Code, shall become members in the manner and under the same conditions as under this article apply to other state employees. The retirement benefit provisions of the Military and Veterans Code shall not apply to those persons. This section shall not apply to the Adjutant General or the Assistant Adjutant General.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20283. Section 20283.
(a)
Any employer that fails to enroll an employee into membership when he or she becomes eligible, or within 90 days thereof, when the employer knows or can reasonably be expected to have known of that eligibility shall be required to pay all arrears costs for member contributions and administrative costs of five hundred dollars ($500) per member as a reimbursement to this system’s current year budget.
(b)
An employer shall not pass on to an employee any costs assessed pursuant to subdivision (a).
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20284. Section 20284.
When any person who is an employee of the state within the meaning of Section 20028 is assigned to the performance of work for which his or her compensation is paid, pursuant to statute or duly authorized contract entered into by the state or the state agency by which the person is employed, out of funds not directly controlled by the state, that person shall continue to be an “employee” of the state for the purposes of this part during the time he or she is assigned to the performance of that work, and the service rendered by him or her during that assignment shall be “state service,” notwithstanding Sections 20028 and 20069 relating to payment of compensation.
Cal. Government Code - GOV § 20285. Section 20285.
Any employee, who was a state member in employment in a function at the time of the assumption of the function by a city and county and became a local member on the date of the assumption and in employment of the city and county in that function under the contract with the city and county, shall continue in membership thereafter so long as he or she continues, without a break exceeding 30 days, in that employment or any other employment, falling in the same membership category under this system, of the city and county or any other public entity in which he or she would be a member of the retirement system of the city and county except for this section. Those employees shall be excluded from membership in the city and county retirement system in that employment. A member electing membership in this system shall make the contributions to this system that would have been required had he or she been a member while in that employment.
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