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AB 569: California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: exceptions: supplemental defined benefit plans.
What AB 569 does, verified February 3, 2026
This bill allows public employers to bargain over contributions for supplemental retirement benefits administered by an exclusive bargaining representative of one or more of their bargaining units. It authorizes public employers to offer supplemental defined benefit plans to new employees who join after the bill's effective date, as long as the employer did not offer such plans before January 1, 2013. The bill restricts the employer's ability to offer these plans to additional employee groups after the bill's effective date. It also permits public employers to negotiate contributions for these supplemental retirement benefits, subject to the existing restrictions on defined benefit pension plans.
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| Feb. 02, 2026 | From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. |
| Jan. 31, 2026 | Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. |
| May. 23, 2025 | In committee: Held under submission. |
| May. 21, 2025 | Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.) |
| May. 21, 2025 | Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.) |
Latest bill textAmended version, April 24, 2025 · 488 words
| Amended IN Assembly April 24, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 569
| Introduced by Assembly Member Stefani |
February 12, 2025 |
An act to amend Section 7522.18 of the Government Code, relating to retirement benefits.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 569, as amended, Stefani. California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: exceptions: supplemental defined benefit plans.
Existing law, the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA), on and after January 1, 2013, requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with PEPRA, as specified. Among other things, PEPRA prohibits a public employer from offering a defined benefit pension plan exceeding specified retirement formulas, requires new members of public retirement systems to contribute at least a specified amount of the normal cost, as defined, for their defined benefit plans, and prohibits an enhancement of a public employee’s retirement formula or benefit adopted after January 1, 2013, from applying to service performed prior to the operative date of the enhancement.
PEPRA prohibits a public employer from offering a supplemental defined benefit plan if the public employer did not do so before January 1, 2013, or, if it did, from offering that plan to an additional employee group after that date.
This bill would, notwithstanding that prohibition, would authorize a public employer, as defined, to bargain over contributions for supplemental retirement benefits administered by, or on behalf of, an exclusive bargaining representative of one or more of the public employer’s bargaining units. units, subject to the limitations specified above.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 7522.18 of the Government Code is amended to read:7522.18.
(a) A public employer that does not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan before January 1, 2013, shall not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan for any employee on or after January 1, 2013.(b) A public employer that provides a supplemental defined benefit plan, including a defined benefit plan offered by a private provider, before January 1, 2013, shall not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan to any additional employee group to which the plan was not provided before January 1, 2013.
(c) Except as provided in Chapter 38 (commencing with Section 25000) of Article 1 of Part 13 of Title 1 of the Education Code, a public employer shall not offer or provide a supplemental defined benefit plan, including a defined benefit plan offered by a private provider, to any employee hired on or after January 1, 2013.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), a A public employer, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (i) of Section 7522.04, may bargain over contributions for supplemental retirement benefits administered by, or on behalf of, an exclusive bargaining representative of one or more of the public employer’s bargaining units. units, subject to the limitations set forth in this section.
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