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California Code, Government Code - GOV § 22944.6

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a)(1) In addition to the appropriation required for state contributions to prefund retiree health care and other postemployment benefits pursuant to Section 22944.5, the Legislature hereby appropriates six hundred sixteen million dollars ($616,000,000) from the General Fund, for the purposes described in subclause (IV) of clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 20 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, on behalf of employees for the 2020-21 employee prefunding contributions that were suspended. The appropriation made by this section represents a portion of the amount identified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 35.50 of the Budget Act of 2021. The appropriation shall be consistent with the requirements of this section and at the direction of the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance shall provide to the Controller a schedule establishing the timing of specific transfers to be used as described in subdivision (b).

(2) The supplemental payment to the Annuitants' Health Care Coverage Fund described in paragraph (1) shall be apportioned to the following state employee bargaining unit subaccounts, as directed by the Department of Finance, not to exceed the following amounts:

(A) Two hundred fifty-one million dollars ($251,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21.

(B) Eleven million dollars ($11,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 2.

(C) Sixty-five million dollars ($65,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 5.

(D) One hundred fifteen million dollars ($115,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 6.

(E) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 7.

(F) Twenty-three million dollars ($23,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 8.

(G) Twenty-eight million dollars ($28,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 9.

(H) Nine million dollars ($9,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 10.

(I) Thirty-two million dollars ($32,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 12.

(J) Three million dollars ($3,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 13.

(K) Six million dollars ($6,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 16.

(L) Seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 18.

(M) Seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) to the subaccount for employees in State Bargaining Unit 19.

(N) Fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) to the subaccount for employees described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (g) of Section 22944.5 of the Government Code.

(b) Beginning July 1, 2021, the appropriation made in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall be applied to the employee contribution required to prefund retiree health care and other postemployment benefits described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) that equates to the suspended contribution amount for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

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