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2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20969.

20969. (a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances for members employed by the state that are subject to mandatory furloughs, credit for service and compensation earnable shall be based on the amount that would have been credited had the employee not been subject to mandatory furloughs.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “mandatory furloughs” means time during which a member is directed to be absent from work without pay, pursuant to Section 19849, or during which a member identified below is directed to be absent from work without pay as a consequence of an Executive order in the 2008–09, 2009–10, and 2010–11 fiscal years:
(1) A state employee subject to an Executive order requiring a mandatory furlough for state employees.
(2) A person who is excepted from the definition of “state employee” in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, or who is an officer or employee of the executive branch of state government who is not a member of the civil service, and who is subject to an Executive order requiring a mandatory furlough for state employees.
(3) A state employee, a person who is excepted from the definition of “state employee” in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, or a person who is an officer or employee of the executive branch of state government who is not a member of the civil service, and whose employer is not under the direct executive authority of the Governor, and who is subject to a mandatory furlough imposed by his or her employer in response to encouragement in an Executive order.
(c) An employer of an employee identified in subdivision (b) shall notify the board of the terms and conditions of any mandatory furlough, including, but not limited to, the amount of mandatory furlough time imposed on employees during a reporting period and the date on which the mandatory furlough ends. The employer and the Controller shall provide any additional information as the board may require to implement this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 833, Sec. 5. (SB 987) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20969.1.

20969.1. (a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances for members employed by a trial court that are subject to mandatory furloughs, as defined in subdivision (c), credit for service and compensation earnable shall be based on the amounts of service and compensation earnable that would have been credited had the employee not been subject to mandatory furloughs.
(b) A trial court shall notify the board of the terms and conditions of any mandatory furlough, including, but not limited to, the amount of mandatory furlough time imposed on employees during a reporting period, and the date on which the mandatory furlough ends. A trial court and a county in which the trial court is located that participates in this system by joint contract pursuant to Section 20460.1 shall provide that additional information as the board may require to implement this section.
(c) For the purposes of this section, “mandatory furloughs” is limited to the time during which a trial court employee is directed to be absent from work without pay in the 2009–10 fiscal year on the day designated by the Judicial Council for closure of the courts as authorized in Section 68106.
(d) For purposes of this section, “trial court employee” means a trial court employee, as that term is defined in Section 71601, whose employer has contracted for its employees to become members of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 440, Sec. 6. (AB 1028) Effective January 1, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20969.2.

20969.2. (a) For all retirement purposes, including benefit eligibility and calculations of retirement allowances under this part for a person employed by a county office of education, a school district, a school district that is a contracting agency, a community college district, or a local safety member, as defined in Section 20420, that is subject to mandatory furloughs, the employee’s credit for service and compensation earnable shall include the amount of service that would have been credited and the compensation earnable that would have been reported had the employee not been subject to a mandatory furlough.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “mandatory furlough” includes any time period on or after July 1, 2008, during which employees are directed to be absent from work without pay on the day or days designated by their employer or by a memorandum of understanding by the parties entered into on or after July 1, 2008, for purposes of achieving budgetary savings.
(c) An employer of an employee identified in subdivision (a) shall notify the board and, if applicable, the county superintendent of schools of the terms and conditions of any mandatory furlough, including, but not limited to, the amount of mandatory furlough time imposed on employees during a reporting period, and the date on which the mandatory furlough ends. The employer and, if applicable, the county superintendent of schools shall provide any additional information as the board may require to implement this section.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 574, Sec. 1. (AB 1651) Effective January 1, 2011.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20969.3.

20969.3. (a) A member who was involuntarily terminated and who is subsequently reinstated to that employment, pursuant to an administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding, shall be reinstated with all retirement benefits that the member otherwise would have accrued. Administrative proceedings also include proceedings before the governing board of a school district, a charter school, a county office of education, or a community college district.
(b) Reinstatement of benefits shall be effective as of the date from which salary is awarded in the administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding. Contributions shall be made for any period for which salary is awarded in the administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding in the amount that the member would have contributed had his or her employment not been terminated, and he or she shall receive credit as state service, as defined in Section 20069, for the period for which salary is awarded and contributions are received.
(c) This section applies to members who were subject to an involuntary termination effective on or after January 1, 2017.
(d) An employer of the member described in subdivision (a) shall notify the board of the final decision ordering the member’s reinstatement to employment within five days of the date the decision becomes final. The notification shall include the date of involuntary termination and the date on which the member was reinstated to employment after the decision.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 85. (AB 1516) Effective January 1, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20970.

20970. The determining qualification for retirement and the benefit provided under Section 21546 and calculating benefits payable upon death before retirement other than that provided under Section 21546, a year of service shall be credited for each year during which the member was employed throughout the year on a part-time basis and was engaged in his or her duties the full amount of time he or she was required by his or her employment to be so engaged. In calculating service to determine the qualification, credit for fractional years shall be granted to the extent of the fraction derived by dividing the time during which the member was engaged in his or her duties within the year, by the time he or she was required by his or her employment to be so engaged.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20971.

20971. For the purposes of the computations required by subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 21532, the annual compensation earnable by a person in partial service retirement shall be deemed the amount of annual compensation the person would have received had the person been employed on a full-time basis.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 3 - Computation of Service Credit › Section 20972.

20972. If a person has been employed by the state or one or more contracting agencies in any relative order and regardless of whether the employment was before or after the effective date of the contract, and if he or she has not been paid his or her accumulated contributions, or having been paid those contributions, he or she redeposits them, he or she shall receive credit for all state service and those employers shall be liable for all state service rendered in their respective employments and that service shall be included in the calculation of the liability of the respective employers under the contracts.
A member who has been employed other than concurrently by two or more employers shall not be denied credit under this section for service prior to the contract date because of intervening employment with the same employer after the contract date and under circumstances that did not qualify him or her for prior service credit under Section 20931 or 20933.
Any member who reentered this system prior to October 1, 1957, and who did not have a right to redeposit withdrawn contributions because of provisions of this section existing prior to that date may redeposit those contributions in accordance with Section 20750.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20990.

20990. A member is absent on military service when he or she is absent from state service by reason of service with the uniformed services. Uniformed services means the Armed Forces of the United States of America, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard when engaged in active duty for training, inactive duty training or full-time National Guard duty, the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, and any other category of persons designated by the President in time of war or emergency.
Service in the uniformed services means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, and a period for which a member is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the member to perform any duty.
The system shall comply with Chapter 43 (commencing with Section 4301) of Title 38 of the United States Code, as that chapter may be amended from time to time.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 680, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20991.

20991. Any member who was absent on military service and whose contributions are not paid for him or her by his or her employer as provided in Section 20997, may make the contributions upon his or her return to state service at times and in the manner prescribed by the board. If he or she does so contribute, he or she shall receive credit for the absence as state service in the same manner as if he or she had not been absent from state service.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20993.

20993. When a member makes the contributions as provided in Section 20991, the same contributions shall be made by the state or contracting agency with respect to the absence that would have been made if the member had not been absent on military service, except that the contributions shall be determined by the employer rate of contribution in effect when the contributions are made and may be included in the employer rate of contribution at the next valuation.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20994.

20994. Any employee of a contracting agency who is or was absent on military service on the effective date of the contract and who would become or would have become a member if he or she were not absent becomes or became a member on the effective date, with the same status and rights of membership as if he or she were not or had not been so absent on the effective date. Any such employee and any other employee of a contracting agency who was absent on military service prior to the effective date shall receive credit as prior service for time during which he or she was absent on military service prior to the effective date provided the employee is entitled to receive prior service credit pursuant to Section 20933 or 20934 and he or she returned to employment of the contracting agency within six months of the termination of his or her active service with the uniformed services under conditions other than dishonorable or within six months after any period of rehabilitation afforded by the United States government other than a period of rehabilitation for purely educational purposes.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 680, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20995.

20995. Any person in the employ of the state who was or is absent on military service on the date when he or she otherwise would have become or would become a member, became or becomes a member on that date, with the same status and rights of membership as if he or she had not been or were not absent.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20996.

20996. An employee of a contracting agency who is or was absent on military service on the effective date of the contract and who would become or would have become a member if he or she were not absent becomes or became a member on that effective date, with the same status and rights of membership as if he or she were not or had not been absent on that effective date. The employee and any other employee of a contracting agency who was absent on military service prior to that effective date shall receive credit as prior service for time during which he or she was absent on military service prior to that effective date provided that employee is entitled to receive prior service credit pursuant to Section 20933, 20934, or 20972 and he or she returned to employment of the contracting agency within six months of the termination of his or her active service with the uniformed services under conditions other than dishonorable or within six months after any period of rehabilitation afforded by the United States government other than a period of rehabilitation for purely educational purposes.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for the approval of contracts or in the case of contracts made after January 1, 1989, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 680, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 20998.

20998. If a member for whose absence on military service employer’s contributions are paid or payable under Section 20997 withdraws or has withdrawn or is or has been paid his or her accumulated contributions after his or her return to state service from military service, and thereafter reenters or reentered state service without redepositing the amount of the accumulated contributions last withdrawn by or repaid to him or her, he or she is nevertheless entitled to be credited with the employer’s contributions for his or her absence on military service under Section 20997, and to receive credit for service for the period of his or her absence on military service, the same as if he or she had not withdrawn or been repaid his or her accumulated contributions. The future contribution rate of a member shall be based upon an age determined by deducting the period of his or her absence on military service so credited to him or her from his age at the time of his or her last re-entry into state service.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21002.

21002. A member who returns to active state service following an employer-approved leave of absence because of his or her serious illness or injury may elect to receive service credit for that period of uncompensated absence at any time prior to retirement by making contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. The purchase of additional service credit pursuant to this section shall not reduce the amount of service credit that the member is eligible to purchase pursuant to this chapter. A member may purchase service credit pursuant to this section for a leave of absence that occurred either before or after the effective date of these provisions.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 244, Sec. 4. (SB 216) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21003.

21003. Time during which a member is absent from state service by reason of injury or illness determined within one year after the end of the absence to have arisen out of and in the course of his or her employment shall be considered as spent in state service for the purpose of qualification for retirement and death benefits, but not for calculation of retirement benefits, except as he or she receives compensation as distinguished from disability indemnity under the Labor Code, during the absence, and then only to the extent of compensation received.
(Added by renumbering Section 20999 by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 115. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21004.

21004. “Leave of absence” also means absence from state service because of illness or injury that arose out of and in the course of employment and for which the member received temporary disability benefits under the Labor Code during the absence and did not receive full compensation as distinguished from the disability benefits for the period of absence.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 833, Sec. 7. (SB 987) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21005.

21005. Time during which a member is absent from state service under leave of absence because of injury or illness that arose out of and in the course of employment, and for which he or she receives full or part salary in lieu of disability indemnity, shall be considered as time spent in state service for purposes of requirement of employer and member contribution, computation of service credit and qualification for and calculation of benefits as though he or she had not been absent.
(Added by renumbering Section 21000 by Stats. 1996, Ch. 906, Sec. 116. Effective January 1, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21006.

21006. (a) “Leave of absence” also means any time during which a state member was excused from performance of his or her duties on approved leave for the purpose of further education. Any member electing to receive service credit for that leave of absence shall make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. However, any eligible member who applies to make that election between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, may, instead of making those contributions, make the payment calculated under this article as it read on December 31, 2000, which payment shall be made in the manner described in Section 21050.
(b) Credit granted under this section may not exceed two years.
(c) This section shall be applicable to persons who are members or became members of this system on and after January 1, 1975.
(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 159, Sec. 113. Effective January 1, 2002.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21007.

21007. “Leave of absence” also means any time during which a member is granted an approved leave for the purpose of service with a university; college; local, state, federal or foreign governmental agency; or nonprofit organization, if he or she returns to employment within the terms and conditions under which the leave was granted. A member may elect to receive service credit for that leave of absence at any time prior to retirement by making the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. However, any eligible member who requests costing of service credit between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, may, instead of making those contributions, make the payment calculated under this article as it read on December 31, 2000, which payment shall be made in the manner described in Section 21050. In no event shall a member receive service credit in excess of two years for each approved leave of absence.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 489, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21008.

21008. Time during which a member is excused from performance of his or her duties, whether or not he or she is required to perform any portion of those duties during that time, and for which he or she receives compensation, but in an amount less than the full compensation earnable by him or her while performing his or her duties when not so excused, such as sabbatical leave, shall be credited as service in the proportion that the compensation paid to the member bears to the full compensation that would be earnable by him or her while performing his or her duties on a full-time basis. However, the member shall receive full-time credit for the time if after returning to the employment from which he or she was excused and at any time prior to retirement he or she elects to, and does, make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. However, any eligible member who requests costing of service credit between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, may, instead of making those contributions, make the payment calculated under this article as it read on December 31, 2000, which payment shall be made in the manner described in Section 21050.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 489, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21009.

21009. “Leave of absence” also means time during which a state member is excused from the performance of a portion of his or her duties and did not, during the absence, receive full compensation if the partial leave of absence was formally granted by the employer for one of the purposes specified in this article. The contributions and interest required of the member shall be determined by the section that defines the purpose of the leave and by the amount of service credit the member would have received had he or she not been absent.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21010.

21010. Unless otherwise provided in this article, a member electing to receive service credit for time during which he or she was absent from state service shall contribute in a lump sum or by installments over that period and subject to such minimum payments as may be prescribed by regulations of the board, an amount equal to (a) the contributions he or she would have made to this system for the period for which current service credit is granted, assuming that the rate of contribution under his or her employer’s formula at the rate age applicable to him or her at the beginning of his or her first subsequent period of service in membership and his or her compensation earnable on that date had applied to him or her during the period for which credit is granted, plus (b) those added contributions as may be specially required under this article as a condition for crediting a particular absence, plus (c) the interest that would have accrued to those contributions if they had been on deposit at the beginning date of his or her first subsequent period of service in membership, from that date until the date of completion of payments. The beginning date of the first subsequent period of service for purposes of computation of contributions and interest shall be deemed to be the end of the period of service credited for a member who has no subsequent return to service. For a member who is subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5, and Section 21077, the service and contribution rate to be used for purposes of computation shall be deemed to be the service and contribution rate that would have been used had the member not been subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5, and Section 21077.
Service shall be credited as current or prior service, or both, as it would be credited if the member had been in state service during his or her absence. All contributions of a member under this article shall be considered to be and shall be administered as normal contributions.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 526, Sec. 14. (SB 220) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21011.

21011. Notwithstanding Section 21010, for a member electing to receive service credit for time during which he or she was absent from state service who is subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5, and Section 21077, the contribution rate to be used for the purposes of computation shall be deemed to be the contribution rate that would have been used had the member not been subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5, and Section 21077.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 526, Sec. 15. (SB 220) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21012.

21012. Benefits based on service credited under this article for an absence that are in excess of the portion paid from member contributions shall be paid from contributions of the employer from whose employment the member was absent.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 4 - Absences from Employment › Section 21013.

21013. “Leave of absence” also means any time, up to one year, during which a member is granted an approved maternity or paternity leave and returns to active state service at the end of the approved leave for a period of time at least equal to that leave. Any member may elect to receive service credit for that leave of absence at any time prior to retirement by making the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. This section applies to both past and future maternity or paternity leaves of absences by members of the system.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 244, Sec. 5. (SB 216) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 5 - Credit for Public Service › Section 21020.5.

21020.5. (a) “Public service” also means time, on or after October 14, 1991, during which a person was employed under the California Senate Fellows, the Assembly Fellowship, or the Executive Fellowship programs, and time, on or after January 1, 2003, during which a person was employed under the Judicial Administration Fellowship program.
(b) A member may elect at any time prior to retirement to receive service credit for that public service by making the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052.
(c) 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 contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 56, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 5 - Credit for Public Service › Section 21021.

21021. “Public service” for the employee of a student body organization, that is not a contracting agency, of a community college, means the period of employment prior to becoming a member of the permanent classified service of the district pursuant to Section 76060 or 88020 of the Education Code.
The county superintendent of schools or superintendent of schools of an independently contracting community college district shall draw a requisition against the funds of the community college district for an amount equal to the total employer contribution that would have been requisitioned under Section 20617 had that service been rendered in the employ of the community college district and the employer rate and member compensation on the date of transfer had been in effect throughout the period of service credited.
The governing board may, at its discretion, establish a method of recovering a portion of, or the total liability for, the amount so requisitioned.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 489, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 5 - PERSONNEL › PART 3 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › CHAPTER 11 - Service Credit › ARTICLE 5 - Credit for Public Service › Section 21022.

21022. “Public service,” with respect to a local member who is a full-time employee, also means any time on or after January 1, 1981, but not to exceed 12 months, during which the local member is laid off. In the event the member becomes subject to membership through employment in another member classification during the layoff period, any service credit accumulated through and contributions associated with the intervening employment shall be revoked upon election by the member to purchase public service credit as provided by this section. The service credit provided by this section shall not exceed one year for each layoff period and shall be provided to any person who: (1) returns within 12 months of the date of layoff to full-time employment under the procedures of the employer for returning laid-off employees to work; (2) elects to purchase the public service credit within three years of return to work or the effective date of the contract amendment to become subject to this section; and (3) redeposits any contributions which had been withdrawn at the commencement of, or during, the period of the layoff.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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21023. (a) “Public service” with respect to a state member, other than a university member, also means the following:
(1) Time during which the member was a prisoner of war involving the United States, plus the time, if any, during which a member was hospitalized following his or her release from captivity for a disabling wound, injury, or disease directly attributable to that captivity but not to include hospitalization after the member’s honorable and permanent medical separation from the armed forces.
(2) Time between the onset of the member’s disabling wound, injury, or disease, directly attributable to service in combat with the armed forces during a war involving the United States, and the date of the member’s honorable and permanent medical separation from the armed forces due to the disabling condition, if the member has a permanent disability rating in excess of 50 percent, that percentage having been determined under applicable federal law.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a war involving the United States exists in any of the following circumstances:
(1) Whenever Congress has declared war and peace has not been formally restored.
(2) Whenever the United States is engaged in active military operations against any foreign power, whether or not a war has been formally declared.
(3) Whenever the United States is assisting the United Nations, in actions involving the use of the armed forces, to maintain or restore international peace and security.
(c) A member electing to receive credit for public service under this section shall pay the contributions and interest required pursuant to Section 21033.
(d) This section shall apply to a member only if the member elects to receive credit while he or she is a state member, other than a university member, and he or she is credited with at least 10 years of service as a state member, other than a university member, on the date of the election.
(e) The maximum public service credit that may be received pursuant to this section is five years.
(f) This section shall not apply to any member receiving military retirement pay as described in Section 20896 or disability retirement pay as described in Section 20897.
(g) Except as provided in subdivision (f), this section shall apply to a state member, other than a university member, who leaves or has left employment with the state, subsequently meets or has subsequently met the conditions specified in subdivisions (a) and (b), and thereafter returns or thereafter has returned to service as a state member, other than a university member, is not entitled to receive the service credit pursuant to Section 20991 or 20997.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 489, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2001.)
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21023.5. (a) “Public service” for purposes of this article also means time served, not to exceed three years, as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), or AmeriCorps.
(b) 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 contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
(c) Any member electing to receive credit for service under this section shall make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. This section applies to past and future service in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America), or AmeriCorps.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 546, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)
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21024. (a) “Public service” with respect to a local member, other than a school member, also means active service with the Armed Forces of the United States or the Merchant Marine of the United States, including time during any period of rehabilitation afforded by the United States government other than a period of rehabilitation for purely educational purposes, and for six months thereafter prior to the member’s first employment by the employer under this section in which the employee was a member.
(b) Any member electing to receive credit for that public service shall make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. However, any eligible member who requests costing of service credit between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, may, instead of making those contributions, make the payment calculated under this article as it read on December 31, 2000, which payment shall be made in the manner described in Section 21050.
(c) The public service under this section shall not include military service in any period for which credit is otherwise given under this article or Article 4 (commencing with Section 20990), or to the extent that total credit under this section would exceed four years.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 21034, a member may select which of two or more periods of service entitles the member to receive public service under this section.
(e) This section shall apply to a member only if the member elects to receive credit while in state service in the employment of one employer on or after the date of the employer’s election to be subject to this section.
(f) An employer shall inform a new employee at the time of hire of their rights to purchase service credit under this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 83. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.)
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21024.5. (a) “Public service” with respect to a member who is a local firefighter also means time served, before becoming a member, as a permanent career civilian federal firefighter or permanent career state firefighter in a position whose principal duties consist of active fire suppression or law enforcement and that service was terminated as a direct consequence of the closure, downsizing, or realignment of a federal military installation.
(b) 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 contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 834, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2007.)
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21025. “Public service” with respect to a local member also means service rendered to a public agency if that agency or a function of that agency is assumed by a contracting agency or a public agency that thereafter becomes a contracting agency.
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 contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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21025.5. (a) “Public service” with respect to a school member or a retired school member also means service rendered on or after June 30, 1977, and prior to June 30, 1982, to an independent data processing center formed pursuant to former Article 2 (commencing with Section 10550) of Chapter 6 of Part 7 of Title 1 of the Education Code, as it read on December 31, 1990, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The member was a school member prior to employment with the independent data processing center.
(2) The member returned to school employment following termination of his or her employment with the independent data processing center.
(3) The member received a refund of the contributions he or she made to the system during his or her employment with the independent data processing center.
(b) A retirement allowance of a retired school member who elects to receive service credit for public service pursuant to this section shall be increased only with respect to the allowance payable on and after the first day of the month following the date the election is received.
(c) A member may elect to receive credit for public service pursuant to this section at any time.
(d) Any member electing to receive credit for service under this section shall make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052.
(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 560, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
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21026. “Public service” with respect to a local member also means service rendered to any California nonprofit corporation whose function is to serve firefighters employed by state and local agencies.
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 contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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21027. (a) “Public service” with respect to a local member who retired pursuant to this part before the effective date of the election of their employer to be subject to Section 21024 also means active service with the Armed Forces of the United States or the Merchant Marine of the United States, including time during any period of rehabilitation afforded by the United States government other than a period of rehabilitation for purely educational purposes, and for six months thereafter prior to the person’s first employment by the employer under this section in which the person was a member.
(b) Any retired person electing to receive credit for that public service shall make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. However, any eligible member who requests costing of service credit between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, may, instead of making those contributions, make the payment calculated under this article as it read on December 31, 2000, which payment shall be made in the manner described in Section 21050.
(c) The public service shall not include military service in any period for which credit is otherwise given under this article or Article 4 (commencing with Section 20990), or to the extent that total credit under this section would exceed four years.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 21034, a retired person may select which of two or more periods of service entitles the retired person to receive public service under this section.
(e) This section shall apply to a retired person only if that person retired immediately following service as a local member, pursuant to this part, and before the effective date of the election by their employer to be subject to Section 21024.
(f) The retirement allowance of a retired person who elects to receive service credit pursuant to this section shall be increased only with respect to the allowance payable on and after the effective date of the election.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 196, Sec. 3. (SB 1402) Effective January 1, 2023.)