Section 27004 - [Operative 4/1/2025] Assessment of Penalties for Late Reports - Cash Balance Benefit Program(a) A report received 11 or more working days following the pay period in which the salary being reported was earned shall be subject to penalties based on the number of calendar days it is late, in an amount equal to the cumulative value of interest accruing on the sum of employer and employee contributions due for the late report compounded daily, based on the regular interest rate in effect that day, until the report is received.(b) A report due on the 10th working day that is received after 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the 10th working day shall be considered to have been received on the 11th working day, and therefore is late.(c) Those portions of a report that adjust contributions remitted in a prior report shall be aggregated and treated as a report adjusting incorrect contributions. The report shall be late if received after 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the 60th calendar day following discovery by the employer or notification by the system. The penalty for a late report adjusting incorrect contributions shall be the cumulative value of interest accruing on the sum of the absolute value of the change in employer and employee contributions for each employee on the late report compounded daily, based on the regular interest rate in effect that day, until the report is received.(1) Notification by the system shall be on a form containing the following items of information and shall be delivered to the employer by mail or email: date the notification was mailed or emailed; fiscal year; participant Client ID; participant name; reporting source or unit; earnings; contribution amount; pay schedule date; pay period end date; and the business rule error number.(2) A final audit report delivered to the employer by mail or email shall constitute notification by the system.(d) Those portions of a report that adjust incorrect contributions for a pay period prior to the effective date of this article shall not be subject to the penalties provided for in this section.(e) Those portions of a report that neither increase nor decrease employer and employee contributions for an employee shall not be subject to the penalties provided for in this section.(f) Those portions of a report that adjust contributions remitted in a prior month shall not be subject to the penalties provided for in this section if all of the following are true: (1) The adjustments are made for all members of a class of employees;(2) The adjustments are made pursuant to a written employment agreement with an employer or with an exclusive representative entered into by an employer, pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code;(3) The adjustments become effective contemporaneously with the effective date of the written employment agreement or the effective date of the provision in the agreement providing for future increases in compensation; and(4) The adjustments are reported to the system within 90 calendar days of the effective date of the written employment agreement or the effective date of the provision in the agreement providing for future increases in compensation. The start of the 90-calendar day period shall be no earlier than the first date on which all of the following are true: (A) The exclusive representative has completed its ratification process for the written employment agreement.(B) The county superintendent of schools has adopted the agreement or the district's governing board has voted to approve the written employment agreement or has otherwise adopted that agreement.(C) The employment agreement's provisions are operative.(g) Those portions of a report that are otherwise late shall not be subject to the penalties provided for in this section during the following periods of time: (1) The period of time beginning on the date an application for workers' compensation is filed with the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board until the date compensation is awarded, if the awarded compensation increases the amount of contributions due for that period of time. The portions of a report that are exempt under this subdivision shall be due 10 working days immediately following the pay period in which compensation is awarded and shall be subject to the penalties provided for in this section beginning on the 11th working day.(2) Any period of time that directly results from the operation of a state or federal statute or regulation that requires a retroactive change in the creditable compensation paid to a member for prior service, if that retroactive change results in a change in the amount of contributions due for that period of time. The portions of a report that are exempt under this subdivision shall be due 10 working days immediately following the pay period in which the period of time expires and shall be subject to the penalties provided for in this section beginning on the 11th working day.(h) For an employee employed as a substitute teacher, or on a part-time basis or a full-time basis with an additional part-time position, those portions of a report for the substitute or part-time position that are otherwise late shall not be subject to the penalty and interest assessed on a late report provided for in subdivision (a) of this section if all of the following are true:(1) The date the substitute or part-time position is paid matches the pay date listed on a published salary schedule for that position; and(2) The pay date is no more than 31 calendar days following the last day of the pay period in which the compensation being reported was earned; and(3) The applicable portions of the report are received no later than 10 working days following the pay date.(i) Those portions of a report that are otherwise late shall not be subject to the penalties provided for in this section under any of the following circumstances:(1) The employer's operations were impaired because of a natural, human-made or war-caused emergency under the conditions defined by the California Emergency Services Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code) if both of the following are true:(A) The penalty is directly related to the employer's impaired operations during the emergency event.(B) System staff possess documentation of such an emergency event.(2) The employer reported information under direction given by the system in accordance with Education Code section 22325 or 22326, or both.(3) The penalty is demonstrably a result of an outage of CalSTRS' secure employer website or a constraint of the pension administration system.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 5, § 27004
Note: Authority cited: California Constitution, Article XVI, Section 17; and Sections 22207, 22213, 22214, 22250 and 22305, Education Code. Reference: Section 26301, Education Code.
Note: Authority cited: California Constitution, Article XVI, Section 17; and Sections 22207, 22213, 22214, 22250 and 22305, Education Code. Reference: Section 26301, Education Code.
1. New section filed 4-2-2012; operative 7-1-2012 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(Register 2012, No. 14).
2. Amendment of subsection (c)(1) filed 8-26-2016; operative 10/1/2016 (Register 2016, No. 35).
3. Amendment of subsection (f)(4) and new subsections (f)(4)(A)-(C) and (i)-(i)(3) filed 12-18-2024; operative 4/1/2025 (Register 2024, No. 51).