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 01/08/25 - Introduced

 AB-171 Labor.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/26/2026 12:16 PM

AB171:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 26, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 171

Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel Committee on Budget (Assembly Members Gabriel (Chair), Addis, Ahrens, Alvarez, Bennett, Bonta, Caloza, Connolly, Fong, Haney, Hart, Jackson, Lee, Ortega, Patel, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rogers, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Stefani, Ward, and Wilson)

January 08, 2025

An act relating to the Budget Act of 2025. An act to amend Section 11553 of, and to add Section 20825.21 to, the Government Code, to amend Sections 62.5, 138.1, 3702.9, 4706.5, 4751, 4753, 4753.5, 4754, 4755, and 4756 of, to amend and repeal Section 5909 of, to add Sections 4750, 4754.1, 4754.2, 4754.3, and 4757 to, and to add and repeal Section 4578 of, the Labor Code, to amend Section 2038 of the Streets and Highways Code, and to amend Sections 14013, 14014, 14033, and 14042 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to labor, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 171, as amended, Committee on Budget.
 Budget Act of 2025. Labor.

(1) Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation with the Department of Industrial Relations, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law provides that the administrative director shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Existing law sets, among others, the director’s annual salary at $81,635 and provides for general salary increases, as specified.

This bill would remove the director from the above-described compensation structure.

(2) The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public
 Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose of providing pensions and benefits to state employees and their beneficiaries and prescribes the rights and duties of employers participating in the system. Under PERL, benefits are funded by investment income and employer and employee contributions, which are deposited into the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated trust fund administered by the system’s board of administration.

PERL prescribes methods for the calculation and payment of the state employer contribution for its employees who are PERS members. PERL provides for an annual adjustment of the state’s contribution in the budget and quarterly appropriations to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund from the General Fund and other funds that are responsible for payment of the employer contribution.

Existing law makes additional General Fund
 appropriations to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund for the 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years. Supplemental payments connected with appropriations for those fiscal years are to be apportioned to the state employee member categories generally, as directed by the Department of Finance, and to specified state employee member categories, including to the state miscellaneous member category, the industrial member category, the state safety member category, and the state peace officer/firefighter member category.

The California Constitution establishes the Budget Stabilization Account in the General Fund and requires the Controller, in each fiscal year, to transfer from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Account amounts that include a sum equal to 1.5% of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year. These provisions further require, until the 2029–30 fiscal year, that the
 Legislature appropriate a percentage of these moneys, the amount of which is generated pursuant to specified calculations, for certain obligations and purposes, including addressing unfunded liabilities for state-level pension plans.

This bill would appropriate $3,018,000,000 from the General Fund for the purposes identified in the constitutional provisions described above, to supplement the state’s appropriation to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund. The bill would specify that th