Section 20996 Of Article 4. Absences From Employment From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 11. >> Article 4.
20996
. An employee of a contracting agency who is or was absent on
military service on the effective date of the contract and who would
become or would have become a member if he or she were not absent
becomes or became a member on that effective date, with the same
status and rights of membership as if he or she were not or had not
been absent on that effective date. The employee and any other
employee of a contracting agency who was absent on military service
prior to that effective date shall receive credit as prior service
for time during which he or she was absent on military service prior
to that effective date provided that employee is entitled to receive
prior service credit pursuant to Section 20933, 20934, or 20972 and
he or she returned to employment of the contracting agency within six
months of the termination of his or her active service with the
uniformed services under conditions other than dishonorable or within
six months after any period of rehabilitation afforded by the United
States government other than a period of rehabilitation for purely
educational purposes.
This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the
employees of a contracting agency until the agency elects to be
subject to this section by amendment to its contract made in the
manner prescribed for the approval of contracts or in the case of
contracts made after January 1, 1989, by express provision in the
contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.