Cal. Gov. Code § 20405

(a) “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees of the Board of Prison Terms, the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, or the Prison Industry Authority in the following classifications:

(b) In addition, “state safety member” shall also include officers and employees of the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, or the Prison Industry Authority in any classification of Vocational Instructor, Industrial Supervisor, Industrial Superintendent, Assistant Industrial Superintendent, or Production Manager II (Prison Industries) that is established on or after January 1, 1984, if the Department of Personnel Administration and the State Personnel Board approve the inclusion of the classification.

(c) “State safety member” shall also include officers and employees in parenthetical specialty classes when the core class has already been expressly included in the state safety membership category if the Department of Personnel Administration and the State Personnel Board approve the inclusion of the classifications. The inclusion shall not be effective until notice of the inclusion has been received by the board.

(d) Any of these officers or employees in employment on the operative date of an amendment to this section and who becomes a state safety member as a result of that amendment, may elect by a writing filed with the board prior to 90 days after notification by the board, to be restored to his or her previous status as a state industrial member. Upon the filing of the election the member shall cease to be a state safety member, and his or her rights and obligations shall be restored prospectively and retroactively to the operative date of that amendment.