AB2982 Pacheco !SIGNED! County Disability ReEmployment

AB 2982, Pacheco. County employees' retirement: disabilityretirement.
Under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, after theboard of retirement determines that a member of the retirement systemhas been incapacitated for the performance of his or her duties butis capable of performing other duties, the appropriate county agencyis requested to initiate and implement a rehabilitation plan pursuantto specified provisions of the Labor Code, which have been repealed. This bill would require the appropriate county agency, after theboard of retirement makes that determination with respect to a memberwho is incapacitated on or after January 1, 2004, to notify themember of suitable county positions and to consult with the member todevelop a reemployment plan for approval by the member, asspecified. (2) Existing law provides that, if a member of a county retirementsystem, without reasonable cause, refuses an offer of alternativework within one year after being determined to be eligible for adisability retirement allowance, the agency employing the member mayhave the member's disability allowance discontinued. This bill would make that provision applicable only to members whowere incapacitated before January 1, 2004. (3) The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediatelyas an urgency statute.