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CA SB 443

enacted

Retirement: joint powers authorities.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 443 pass?

Yes. CA SB 443 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 756, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 443 about?

The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act and, among other provisions, establishes new retirement formulas that may not be exceeded by a public employer offering a defined benefit pension plan for employees first hired on or after January 1, 2013. Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, generally authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to jointly exercise any common power, which may include hiring employees and establishing retirement systems. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority formed by the Cities of Brea and Fullerton, and a joint powers authority formed by the Belmont Fire Protection District, the Estero Municipal Improvement District, and the City of San Mateo, on or after January 1, 2013, to provide their employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employers prior to the exercise of a common power, to which the employee is associated, by the joint powers authority to any employee of specified cities and districts who is not a new member and subsequently is employed by the joint powers authority within 180 days of the city or agency providing for the exercise of a common power, to which the employee was associated, by the joint powers authority. This bill would authorize the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency, a joint powers authority, to provide a defined benefit plan or formula to an employee of a member agency of the joint powers authority or of another public agency, as defined, who is not a new member and who is subsequently employed by the joint powers authority within 180 days of the effective date of the retirement plan contract amendment. The bill would authorize the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency, on or before April 1, 2026, to select a defined benefit plan or formula offered by one of its member agencies prior to the exercise of a common power which the member agency offered to its employees on December 31, 2012, and designate that formula for its employees, as described above. The bill would provide that it would not exempt a new employee or a new member from the requirements of PEPRA. Existing law also authorizes a joint powers authority to offer defined benefit plans or formulas that are not PEPRA plans or formulas, provided that the plans or formulas were those the employees received prior to the creation of the authority, the employees are not new members under PEPRA, and they are employed by the authority within 180 days, as specified. This bill would authorize a joint powers authority, after obtaining approval from a retirement system, to offer those defined benefit plans or formulas to a member agency that is a nonfounding member of the joint powers authority, for employees who are not new members under PEPRA and are employed by the joint powers authority within 180 days of the agency becoming a member agency. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 7522.02 of the Government Code proposed by SB 853 to be operative only if this bill and SB 853 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Who sponsors CA SB 443?

Rubio is the primary sponsor of CA SB 443.

Description

The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) requires a public retirement system, as defined, to modify its plan or plans to comply with the act and, among other provisions, establishes new retirement formulas that may not be exceeded by a public employer offering a defined benefit pension plan for employees first hired on or after January 1, 2013. Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, generally authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to jointly exercise any common power, which may include hiring employees and establishing retirement systems. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority formed by the Cities of Brea and Fullerton, and a joint powers authority formed by the Belmont Fire Protection District, the Estero Municipal Improvement District, and the City of San Mateo, on or after January 1, 2013, to provide their employees the defined benefit plan or formula that those employees received from their respective employers prior to the exercise of a common power, to which the employee is associated, by the joint powers authority to any employee of specified cities and districts who is not a new member and subsequently is employed by the joint powers authority within 180 days of the city or agency providing for the exercise of a common power, to which the employee was associated, by the joint powers authority. This bill would authorize the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency, a joint powers authority, to provide a defined benefit plan or formula to an employee of a member agency of the joint powers authority or of another public agency, as defined, who is not a new member and who is subsequently employed by the joint powers authority within 180 days of the effective date of the retirement plan contract amendment. The bill would authorize the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency, on or before April 1, 2026, to select a defined benefit plan or formula offered by one of its member agencies prior to the exercise of a common power which the member agency offered to its employees on December 31, 2012, and designate that formula for its employees, as described above. The bill would provide that it would not exempt a new employee or a new member from the requirements of PEPRA. Existing law also authorizes a joint powers authority to offer defined benefit plans or formulas that are not PEPRA plans or formulas, provided that the plans or formulas were those the employees received prior to the creation of the authority, the employees are not new members under PEPRA, and they are employed by the authority within 180 days, as specified. This bill would authorize a joint powers authority, after obtaining approval from a retirement system, to offer those defined benefit plans or formulas to a member agency that is a nonfounding member of the joint powers authority, for employees who are not new members under PEPRA and are employed by the joint powers authority within 180 days of the agency becoming a member agency. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 7522.02 of the Government Code proposed by SB 853 to be operative only if this bill and SB 853 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Introduced
2025-02-18
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 756, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Rubioauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-18

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-19

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-18

    Set for hearing March 26.

  5. 2025-03-26

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 567.) (March 26).

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  6. 2025-03-27

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  7. 2025-04-01

    Set for hearing April 7.

  8. 2025-04-07

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  9. 2025-04-08

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-06-03

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1462.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  11. 2025-06-04

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  12. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.

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  13. 2025-06-23

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R.

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  14. 2025-06-25

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  15. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).

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  16. 2025-07-03

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. 2025-08-28

    Read third time and amended.

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  18. 2025-08-28

    Ordered to third reading.

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  19. 2025-09-02

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 2815.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  20. 2025-09-03

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  21. 2025-09-04

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2511.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  22. 2025-09-09

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  23. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  24. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 756, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/18/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-18Compare
  • 03/27/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-27Compare
  • 06/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-23Compare
  • 08/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-08-28Compare
  • 09/05/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-05Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • SB443Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-03-26 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Laird: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-06-03 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Valladares: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-06-25 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Lackey: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Boerner: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-07-02 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Mark González: other

  • SB 443 Rubio Senate Third Reading By Harabedian

    2025-09-02 · pass · 76-1

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • DeMaio: no
    • Gallagher: other
    • Berman: other

  • Unfinished Business SB443 Rubio Concurrence

    2025-09-04 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Reyes: other

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