Public Employees' Retirement System: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments.
(1) Existing law, the Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) , establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides a defined benefit to members of the system, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. PERL authorizes a public agency to contract to make its employees members of PERS and prescribes a process for this. PERS is administered by its board of administration, which is responsible for correcting errors and omissions in the administration of the system and the payment of benefits. Existing law requires the board to correct all actions taken as a result of errors or omissions of the state or a contracting agency, in accordance with certain procedures.
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20212022
SB 278
California SB 278 (20212022)
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Public Employees' Retirement System: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments.
California SB 278 (20212022) — Public Employees' Retirement System: disallowed compensation: benefit adjustments.
(1) Existing law, the Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) , establishes the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides a defined benefit to members of the system, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. PERL authorizes a public agency to contract to make its employees members of PERS and prescribes a process for this. PERS is administered by its board of administration, which is responsible for correcting errors and omissions in the administration of the system and the payment of benefits. Existing law requires the board to correct all actions taken as a result of errors or omissions of the state or a contracting agency, in accordance with certain procedures.
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
2021-03-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 406.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-03-17 Set for hearing April 6.
2021-03-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 686.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-04-08 Set for hearing April 19.
2021-04-20 April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1186.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1311.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
2021-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-06-25 June 30 hearing postponed by committee.
2021-07-07 July 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2021-08-26 Coauthors revised.
2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
2021-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 2820.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2021-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 2520.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2021-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 331, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/604ef303-cca7-4ae2-8149-dad29158e4d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).