July 2010 Volume 23 No. 13 Health Committee Approves Single Payer Health Care Coverage Bill Transfer Bills' Progress Federal Report on For-Profit Education Consequences of Failure to Enact State Budget By the Way . . . Requiring Use of Electronic Book Readers May Constitute Discrimination Initiative to Lower the Threshold for Passage of Educational Parcel Taxes Fails to Qualify for Ballot GASB Issues New Standard for Financial Instruments Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Applications Now Being Accepted Bill Would Put K-University Facilities Bond on November 2010 Ballot Assembly Democrats Modify Borrowing Scheme Senate Democrats Propose to Shift Social Service and Public Safety Programs to Counties
June 2010 Volume 23 No. 12 Implementing Health Care Reform: Temporary Reinsurance for Early Retirees Conference Committee Takes Up Community College Budget PERS Approves 2011 HMO and PPO Health Plan Rates Update on State Revenue—Video The Latest on Revenues and the Economy By the Way . . . PERS Board Adopts 2010-11 Employer Contribution Rates PERS Committee Again Recommends Increased Employer Contribution Rates Ask SSC . . . How Will SB 919 Impact Classified Employees Subject to Layoff? First Successful Community College Parcel Tax School Bonds Do Well in a Tough Economy May Revision Questions and Answers
June 2010 Volume 23 No. 11 Ask SSC . . . How Do PERS and STRS Affect the Current State Budget Crisis? STRS Board Delays Decision on Reducing Investment Return Assumption Budget Conference Committee Begins Work STRS Poised to Reduce Investment Return Actuarial Assumption Bill to Change Community College Funding Formula Passes Senate Ask SSC . . . What Is Meant by a “Class of Employees” for Furlough Days? Implementing Health Care Reform: Information Reporting Requirements Ask SSC . . . How Do PERS and STRS Affect the Current State Crisis? Congress Cuts Federal Aid, Leaving the May Revision Short $1.9 Billion Ask SSC . . . What Does the Reporting of Health Care Premiums on Form W-2 Mean? Budget Subcommittee Approves Controversial Budget Bill Language PERS’ School Pool Contribution Rate Approval Delayed Assembly Democrats Release “The California Jobs Budget” Implementing Health Care Reform—Dependent Coverage By the Way . . . Funded Negative COLA to Differ for CCC and K-12