Section 28000 Of Chapter 16. Military Services From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 14. >> Chapter 16.
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. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares its intent to
preserve and protect the rights of reemployed participants who have
been absent from a position of employment covered by the Cash Balance
Benefit Program to serve in the uniformed services of the United
States of America in accordance with the Uniformed Services
Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (Chapter 43
(commencing with Section 4301) of Title 38 of the United States
Code).
(b) The plan shall comply with Chapter 43 (commencing with Section
4301) of Title 38 of the United States Code, as that chapter may be
amended from time to time.
(c) The term "service in the uniformed services" means the
performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a
uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty,
active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive
duty training, and a period for which a participant is absent from a
position of employment for the purpose of an examination to
determine the fitness of the participant to perform any such duty.
(d) The term "uniformed services" means the Armed Forces of the
United States of America, the Army National Guard and the Air
National Guard when engaged in active duty for training, inactive
duty training, or full-time National Guard duty, the commissioned
corps of the Public Health Service, and any other category of persons
designated by the President in time of war or emergency.
(e) No entitlement of the right to contribute toward credits under
the Cash Balance Benefit Program pursuant to this chapter by the
participant as a result of service in the uniformed services shall
accrue if the participant does not return to employment with the same
employer or employers which employed the participant immediately
prior to the eligible period of service in the uniformed services as
prescribed in Chapter 43 (commencing with Section 4301) of Title 38
of the United States Code.