{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-20938","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 20938","heading":"","body":"Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, credit for prior service shall be granted only to each person who was employed by a contracting agency on the effective date of the agency’s contract or amendment to the contract under which that prior service is granted.\nThis section shall not apply to a contracting agency nor to the employees of a contracting agency, unless the agency elects to be subject to this section by express provision in the contract making the contracting agency subject to this section.","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [8000. - 22980.]","DIVISION 5. PERSONNEL [18000. - 22980.]","PART 3. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM [20000. - 21716.]","CHAPTER 11. Service Credit [20890. - 21054.]","ARTICLE 2. Prior Service Credit [20930. - 20938.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"86462ec4357d0f033321cd1fbe6967da38bae895254e194fb31489bd3cde391d","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-20937","next":"us-ca/gov-20960"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}