"This responds to your request for an advisory opinion concerning the applicability of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA). Specifically, you ask whether participation by twenty-eight employees of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) would adversely affect the status of CalPERS as a 'governmental plan' within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA."  MORE >>