(a) The combined current and prior service pensions for state peace officer/firefighter members subject to this section with respect to state peace officer/firefighter service, and for local safety members with respect to local safety service rendered to a contracting agency that is subject to this section, is a pension derived from the contributions of the employer sufficient when added to the service retirement annuity that is derived from the accumulated normal contributions of the state peace officer/firefighter member or local safety member at the date of his or her retirement to equal the fraction of 3 percent of his or her final compensation set forth opposite his or her age at retirement taken to the preceding completed quarter year, in the following table, multiplied by the number of years of state peace officer/firefighter service or local safety service subject to this section with which he or she is credited at retirement:
Age at | Fraction |
50 ........................ | .800 |
50¼ ........................ | .810 |
50½ ........................ | .820 |
50¾ ........................ | .830 |
51 ........................ | .840 |
51¼ ........................ | .850 |
51½ ........................ | .860 |
51¾ ........................ | .870 |
52 ........................ | .880 |
52¼ ........................ | .890 |
52½ ........................ | .900 |
52¾ ........................ | .910 |
53 ........................ | .920 |
53¼ ........................ | .930 |
53½ ........................ | .940 |
53¾ ........................ | .950 |
54 ........................ | .960 |
54¼ ........................ | .970 |
54½ ........................ | .980 |
54¾ ........................ | .990 |
55 and over ........................ | 1.000 |
(b) In no event shall the current service pension and the combined current and prior service pensions under this section for all service to all employers exceed an amount that, when added to the service retirement annuity related to that service, equals 85 percent of final compensation. For state peace officer/firefighter members with respect to service for all state employers under this section, the benefit shall not exceed 90 percent of final compensation. If the pension relates to service to more than one employer and would otherwise exceed that maximum, the pension payable with respect to each employer shall be reduced in the same proportion as the allowance based on service to that employer bears to the total allowance computed as though there were no limit, so that the total of the pensions shall equal the maximum. Where a state or local member has service under this section with both state and local agency employers, the higher maximum shall apply and the additional benefit shall be funded by increasing the member’s pension payable with respect to the employer for whom the member performed the service subject to the higher maximum.
(c) This section shall supersede Section 21363 for state peace officer/firefighter members with respect to service rendered for the California State University or the legislative or judicial branch of government.
(d) This section shall also supersede Section 21363 for state peace officer/firefighter members, for service not subject to subdivision (c), who are employed by the state on or after January 1, 2000.
(e) This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor its employees unless and until the agency elects to be subject to the provisions of this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts or, in the case of contracts made after the date this section becomes operative, by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section. The operative date of this section for a local safety member shall be the effective date of the amendment to his or her employer’s contract electing to be subject to this section.
(f) This section shall supersede Section 21363, 21366, 21368, 21369, or 21370, whichever is then applicable, with respect to local safety members who retire after the date this section becomes applicable to their respective employers.
(g) The Legislature reserves, with respect to any member subject to this section, the right to provide for the adjustment of industrial disability retirement allowances because of earnings of a retired person and modification of the conditions and qualifications required for retirement for disability as it may find appropriate because of the earlier age of service retirement made possible by the benefits under this section.
(h) The Legislature reserves the right to subsequently modify or amend this part in order to completely effectuate the intent and purposes of this section and the right to not provide any new comparable advantages if disadvantages to employees result from any modification or amendment.
(i) Operation and application of this section are subject to the limitations set forth in Section 21251.13.
(j) This section shall apply to a state patrol member who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state patrol member of the system on or after October 31, 2010, and is represented by State Bargaining Unit 5. With respect to related state patrol members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
(k) This section shall apply to a state peace officer/firefighter member who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state peace officer/firefighter member of the system on or after October 31, 2010, and is represented by State Bargaining Unit 8. With respect to related state peace officer/firefighter members in managerial, supervisory, or confidential positions and officers or employees of the executive branch of state government who are not members of the civil service, the Director of Human Resources may exercise his or her discretion whether to approve their status in writing to the board.
(l) Subdivisions (j) and (k) do not apply to:
(1) Former state employees previously employed before October 31, 2010, who return to state employment on or after October 31, 2010.
(2) State employees hired prior to October 31, 2010, who were subject to Section 20281.5 during the first 24 months of state employment.
(3) State employees hired prior to October 31, 2010, who become subject to representation by State Bargaining Unit 5 or 8 on or after October 31, 2010.
(4) State employees on an approved leave of absence employed before October 31, 2010, who return to active employment on or after October 31, 2010.
(m) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, this section shall not apply to a peace officer/firefighter member who is employed for the first time by the California State University or the legislative or judicial branch and becomes a state peace officer/firefighter member of the system on or after January 15, 2011.
(2) If this subdivision is in conflict with a memorandum of understanding that is current and in effect on January 15, 2011, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling while it remains in effect. Upon expiration of the memorandum of understanding that is in effect and current on January 15, 2011, this section shall be controlling and may not be superseded by a subsequent memorandum of understanding.
(n) Notwithstanding Section 3517.8, or any provision of an expired memorandum of understanding, or any other provision of this section, this section shall not apply to those peace officer/firefighter members in State Bargaining Units 6 and 7 first employed by the state on or after January 15, 2011.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 137. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013. Pursuant to subd. (i), section is conditionally operative as prescribed in Section 21251.13.)