Section 100000 Of Title 21. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act From California Government Code >> Title 21.
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. For purposes of this title, the following definitions shall
apply:
(a) "Board" means the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings
Investment Board.
(b) "California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program" or
"program" means a retirement savings program offered by the
California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust.
(c) (1) "Eligible employee" means a person who is employed by an
eligible employer.
(2) "Eligible employee" does not include:
(A) Any employee covered under the federal Railway Labor Act (45
U.S.C. Sec. 151), or any employee engaged in interstate commerce so
as not to be subject to the legislative powers of the state, except
insofar as application of this title is authorized under the United
States Constitution or laws of the United States.
(B) Any employee covered by a valid collective bargaining
agreement that expressly provides for a multiemployer Taft-Hartley
pension plan.
(d) "Eligible employer" means a person or entity engaged in a
business, industry, profession, trade, or other enterprise in the
state, whether for profit or not for profit, excluding the federal
government, the state, any county, any municipal corporation, or any
of the state's units or instrumentalities, that has five or more
employees and that satisfies the requirements to establish or
participate in a payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement.
(e) "IRA" means an individual retirement account or individual
retirement annuity under Section 408(a) or 408(b) of Title 26 of the
United States Code.
(f) "Participating employer" means an eligible employer that
provides a payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement provided
for by this title for eligible employees.
(g) "Payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement" means an
arrangement by which an employer allows employees to remit payroll
deduction contributions to a retirement savings program.
(h) "Stated interest rate" means the rate of interest allocated to
program accounts as determined by the board pursuant to subdivision
(c) of Section 100008.
(i) "Trust" means the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings
Trust established by this title.
(j) "Vendor" means a registered investment company or admitted
life insurance company qualified to do business in California that
provides retirement investment products. "Vendor" also includes a
company that is registered to do business in California that provides
payroll services or recordkeeping services and offers retirement
plans or payroll deposit IRA arrangements using products of regulated
investment companies and insurance companies qualified to do
business in California. "Vendor" does not include individual
registered representatives, brokers, financial planners, or agents.