Public Employment and Retirement

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SB 24 (Walters-R) Public employees' retirement: benefit plans

Eliminates the requirement that the Legislature approve the changes in a defined benefit pension plan that provides a defined benefit formula with a lower benefit factor at normal retirement age, and results in a lower normal cost. Also authorizes a local agency public employer or public retirement system that offers a defined benefit pension plan to offer a benefit formula with a lower benefit factor at normal retirement age and that results in a lower normal cost than the benefit formulas that are currently required, for purposes of addressing a fiscal necessity.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 216 (Beall-D) Public employment: salary ranges

Requires the Department of Human Resources to address salary compaction for managerial and supervisorial employees and provide data to the Legislature when insufficient revenue is available to implement a salary determination to increase managerial and supervisorial salaries by 10% over the salaries of their subordinate rank and file employees.
Vetoed

SB 217* (Beall-D) State employees: State Bargaining Unit 9

Approves provisions of a memorandum of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 9, the Professional Engineers in California Government, that requires the expenditure of funds, and provides that these provisions become effective even if these provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act. Specifies that provisions of the memorandum of understanding that require the expenditure of funds will not take effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and requires the state employer and the affected employee organization to meet and confer to renegotiate the affected provisions if funds for those provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 259 (Hancock-D) Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees

Amends the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to specifically include, for purposes of collective bargaining, student employees at the University of California, California State University, and Hastings College of Law whose employment is contingent on their status as students. Also clarifies, with respect to the University of California students, that work required to achieve satisfactory progress toward their academic degrees is excluded from the scope of representation in the collective bargaining process.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 423 (Huff-R) Public transportation employees: strikes: prohibition

Repeals various statutes governing public transportation labor disputes, including requirements governing labor relations when a strike is threatened; adds new laws to prohibit public transportation workers from striking; and proscribes penalties and sanctions for employees and recognized labor organizations that participate in, cause, encourage, or condone strikes.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 503* (Galgiani-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Approves provisions of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 18, the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians, that requires the expenditure of funds, and specifies that these provisions become effective even if these provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act. Provides that provisions of the MOU that require the expenditure of funds will not take effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and authorizes the state employer and the affected employee organization to reopen negotiations on all or part of the MOU if funds for those provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature. Also appropriates $1,005,000 for expenditure in the 2013-14 fiscal year for state employee compensation, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 523 (Correa-D) Public employment: merit system: waiver

Provides that Orange County shall not be entitled to an administrative waiver of all or part of a local agency merit system by the State Personnel Board if the County is found to be out of compliance with a merit-based personnel system pursuant to an audit by the County or by the Board.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 572 (Price-D) In-Home Supportive Services Employer-Employee Relations Act

Authorizes the California In-Home Supportive Services Authority to implement any or all of its last, best, and final offer, provided that they would be required to present the parts of its last, best, and final offer that conflict with existing law or require the expenditure of funds to the Legislature for approval.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 619 (Yee-D) State employees: training: civics orientation

Requires the Department of Education, if private funds are secured for this purpose, to develop and make available online a state employee civics orientation on federal and state government by 1/1/15. Requires employees hired or promoted after 7/1/15, to complete the orientation and submit a certification statement to an appointing power or supervising official, to be kept and made available as specified.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 673 (DeSaulnier-D) County employees' retirement: Contra Costa County

Makes the Contra Costa County retirement system an independent, public employer district within the Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association and the statutory employer for System employees. Also provides that Contra Costa County retirement system employees are eligible for Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association membership.
Chapter 244, Statutes of 2014

SB 774 (Walters-R) State employees: postemployment benefits

Amends the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act to (1) require 15 to 25 years of state employment to vest for lifetime state retiree health benefits for all state employees of the executive branch who are subject to collective bargaining and are who first hired on or after 1/1/15; (2) require all employers that provide the Act health care coverage to retirees, and their employees first hired after 1/1/15, to share equally in prefunding the normal actuarial costs of retiree health benefits; and (3) prohibit the state from providing retiree health benefits for employees first hired on or after 1/1/15, unless it fully funds those benefits.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 775 (Walters-R) State employees: postemployment benefits

Requires the State Controller, in his/her annual report on the financial status of the state's public retirement systems and using data collected for that report, to evaluate the actuarial feasibility and associated costs of a statewide buyout of current state employees' vested retiree health care benefits.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 778 (Nielsen-R) Public employment: salary ranges

Requires the Department of Human Resources to address salary compaction and parity concerns. Also requires the Department, when it is determined that revenues do not allow implementation of a salary determination to increase any excluded and exempt employee salaries in a given year, to provide to the Legislature existing data on the salary determination, including all salary compaction and parity determinations for supervisory and managerial employees.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 979 (Beall-D) Local public employee organizations: factfinding panel

Provides that differences between the governing body of a local public agency, or those boards, commissions, administrative officers, or other representatives, who meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations include those differences that arise from any dispute over any matter within the scope of representation as to which an obligation to meet and confer exists and are not limited to negotiations after impasse after collective bargaining for a new or successor memorandum of understanding.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1071 (Beall-D) Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees

Provides state excluded supervisory employees operating two or more work shifts per day, the right to obtain work shifts based on seniority. Specifies the shift selection rights apply only to 60% of the positions within the same classification scheduled for a shift. Clarifies these provisions do not apply to a peace officer employed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Vetoed

SB 1206 (Evans-D) State Personnel Board: administrative regulations

Makes technical changes to statute governing the State Personnel Board's rulemaking authority by updating references to the Administrative Procedure Act and eliminating obsolete code section references to subject matters that were transferred to the Department of Human Resources or the Department of Fair Employment and Housing in prior legislation.
Chapter 223, Statutes of 2014

SB 1240 (Anderson-R) State civil service: employment procedures

Requires state employment application forms to require an applicant to disclose whether the applicant had ever entered upon an agreement with a state department prohibiting the applicant from seeking or accepting subsequent employment with the state.
Chapter 254, Statutes of 2014

SB 1288 (Huff-R) State public employment: legislative approval

Prohibits a bill presented to the Legislature for the approval of a memorandum of understanding between the Governor and a recognized employee organization from providing for approval of more than one memorandum of understanding.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SCA 15 (Yee-D) University of California: retirement benefits

Requires the University of California and its employees and the University of California Retirement Plan to conform with the requirements of the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 208 (Gorell-R) State employees: additional compensation

Prohibits a salaried state employee from taking an additional hourly wage job in the same department or agency unless this prohibition is in conflict with a memorandum of understanding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 236* (Rendon-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Ratifies the provisions of a memorandum of understanding between the state and State Bargaining Unit 7, Protective Services and Public Safety, represented exclusively by the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 237* (Rendon-D) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Ratifies the provisions of a memorandum of understanding between the state and State Bargaining Unit 6, Corrections, represented exclusively by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 431 (Mullin-D) County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: federal compliance

Revises various provisions of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 to explicitly conform with federal law.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 507 (Garcia-D) Public employees' retirement: postretirement death benefits

Increases, over a period of four years, the post retirement death benefit paid to the beneficiary of a school member of the State Public Employees' Retirement System from $2,000 to $6,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 616 (Bocanegra-D) Public employee organizations: dispute: fact-finding panel

Amends the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act relating to bargaining impasse and fact finding procedures between local agencies and their respective employee representation organizations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 778 (Bocanegra-D) Public employee organizations: dispute: factfinding panel

Makes changes to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act with respect to impasse procedures and factfinding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 872 (Dickinson-D) Public employees: rights

Enacts the Safety Accountability Fairness and Efficiency Act for Public Employees which provides various rights and protections to non-excluded state civil service employees, as specified, and requires that any adverse action taken against a state employee be initiated and the investigation completed within one year of discovery of the cause for discipline.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 931 (Beth Gaines-R) Public Employees' Retirement System: health benefits

Requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to establish a wellness program for state employees and annuitants that is consistent with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. Requires the program to provide financial incentives for participation. Requires the program to include both provisions that require an individual to meet a standard related to a health factor to receive an incentive and provisions that only require participation. Also, on and after 1/1/14, requires the Board to offer a high deductible health plan, as defined in the federal tax law, and a health savings account option to public employees and annuitants, as specified. Establishes the Public Employees' Health Savings Fund, a continuously appropriated fund within the State Treasury, for payment of qualified medical expenses of employees and annuitants who elect to enroll in the high deductible health plan and participate in the health savings account option, and requires those employees and annuitants, and their employers, to make specified contributions to that Fund.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1378* (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Ratifies the provisions of a memorandum of understanding between the state and an as yet unspecified state bargaining unit.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1550 (Rendon-D) School employees: collective bargaining

Makes changes to the Educational Employment Relations Act related to the appointment of a mediator, the minimum time required to implement a last, best, and final offer, and other technical changes.
Vetoed

AB 1611 (Bonta-D) School employees: scope of representation: notice

Requires public school employers to provide to the exclusive representative of a classified school employee group reasonable written notice of their intent to make any changes to matters within the scope of representation.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2014

AB 1681 (Allen-R) Public employees: benefits

Prohibits a public agency or state employer from entering into a memorandum of understanding, on or after 1/1/15, that provides for postemployment health benefits without a strategy for permanently prefunding those benefits pursuant to the California Public Employees' Retirement System's prefunding plan for health care coverage for annuitants.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1783* (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public employees' retirement

Continues to exempt certain public transit workers from the requirements of the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) until 1/1/16, pending a ruling from the federal district court with regard to whether or not the implementation of PEPRA, with regard to the impacted transit workers, justified the federal Secretary of Labor's determination in 2013 that the implementation of PEPRA precluded certification of certain transit projects and related federal funding.
Chapter 724, Statutes of 2014

AB 1820 (Mullin-D) State employment: applications

Requires the Department of Human Resources and other appointing powers to use electronic means of communications with job applicants who file state employment applications and examinations online.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2014

AB 1824 (Rendon-D) County employees' retirement: optional settlements revision

Permits, upon adoption by a county board of retirement, a retired member of a county retirement system being operated under the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to change a previously elected optional settlement, as specified.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2014

AB 1834 (Williams-D) Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees

Amends the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to specifically include in the definition of "employee" for purposes of collective bargaining, any employee, including student employees at the University of California, California State University, and Hastings College of Law, whose employment is contingent on their status as students. Also clarifies that the scope of representation for University of California students does not include work required to achieve satisfactory progress toward their academic degrees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1881 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Public employee relations: Los Angeles

Sets standards for appointing members to the Los Angeles City Employee Relations Board and the Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission.
Vetoed

AB 2032 (Bonta-D) Civil service: employee hearings

Requires the burden of proof to sustain a disciplinary action, rather than switching to the appellant employee, to remain with the state employing agency in court proceedings for a writ of mandate brought in superior court if the State Personnel Board has failed to render a decision in the administrative hearing process within existing statutorily required timeframes.
Vetoed

AB 2126 (Bonta-D) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: mediation

Amends the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act relating to bargaining impasse and mediation procedures between local agencies and their respective employee representation organizations.
Vetoed

AB 2155 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Nurses and certified nurse assistants: overtime

Prohibits mandatory overtime for state employees employed as registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and certified nursing assistants in state hospitals and facilities, except as specified.
Vetoed

AB 2419 (Garcia-D) Public employee relations: agency shop arrangements

Exempts the County and City of Los Angeles from a prohibition against agency shop arrangements for management employees.
Vetoed

AB 2475 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State employees: memorandum of understanding

Approves provisions of the memorandum of understanding entered into between the state employer and an unspecified State Bargaining Unit that require the expenditure of funds, and provides that these provisions will become effective even if these provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act. Provides that provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved by this bill that require the expenditure of funds will not take effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and require the state employer and the affected employee organization to meet and confer to renegotiate the affected provisions if funds for those provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature.
(Died in the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 2582 (Bonta-D) Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Authorizes the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to establish a vesting requirement for post-retirement health benefits coverage that is different than what is allowed under existing law for contracting agencies and which has been bargained with BART's employee representatives. BART's health insurance employer contribution for annuitants with 10 years of credited service would be 50% of that provided to active employees. Increases the employer contribution incrementally by 10% for each credited year of service, reaching 100% if the annuitant attained 15 years of credited service. Specifies that annuitants who retire for disability and have at least five years of BART service receive 100% of BART's employer contribution for active employees. Specifies that these provisions apply only to those retiring on or after this bill's effective date.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2014

Pension Reform

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SB 1114 (Walters-R) Postretirement health care benefits

Increases the number of years of service necessary for state employees to vest for retiree health care and reduce the amount of the employer contribution for retiree health care. Specifies that these changes apply to all state employees first hired on and after 1/1/15.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1202 (Hueso-D) Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act

Requires the employer contributions for postretirement health benefit contribution for postretirement health benefit coverage for an annuitant of the City of Indio who is first hired on or after 10/1/13, to be based on specified percentages associated with the annuitant's credited years of service performed with the city, provided that the city not pay an employer contribution for the first 10 years of that credited service. Requires the employer contribution with respect to each annuitant to be mutually agreed upon through collective bargaining by the City of Indio and the exclusive representatives of employees of the City and allows the employer to adjust the amount from time to time through a collectively bargained memorandum of understanding. Specifies that if the employees are not represented by a recognized bargaining unit, the employer contribution would be determined by a resolution passed by the city council, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1219 (Torres-D) Public employees' retirement: service after retirement

Makes conforming changes to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, administered by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, in order to bring the Public Employees' Retirement Law into conformity with the Public Employee's Pension Reform Act of 2013.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1251 (Huff-R) California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013

Authorizes a joint powers authority (JPA) formed by the Cities of Brea and Fullerton on or after 1/1/13, to provide employees who are not new members under the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act with the defined benefit plan or formula that was received by those employees from their respective employers on 12/31/12, if they are employed by the JPA without a break in service of more than 180 days. Also authorizes up to three cities in Orange County, as specified, to join JPA and prohibits the formation of a JPA on or after 1/1/13, in a manner that would exempt a new employee or a new member from the requirements of the Act.
Chapter 757, Statutes of 2014

AB 160* (Alejo-D) California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013

Excludes certain Taft-Hartley multiemployer retirement plans, and retirement plans for public employees whose collective bargaining rights are protected by provisions of the Federal Transit Act, from the provisions of the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 611* (Bonta-D) State peace officers' and firefighters

Makes technical changes to provisions that close the State Peace Officers' and Firefighters Defined Contribution Plan and define how members' funds in the plan shall be distributed in order to comply with Internal Revenue Code requirements.
Chapter 790, Statutes of 2014

AB 837 (Wieckowski-D) Public employees' retirement benefits

Exempts judges who were elected to office prior to 1/1/13, but who did not take office until 2013, from the requirement in the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 to make employee contributions equal to one half of the normal cost of the retirement benefit plan.
Vetoed

AB 2472 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Public employees: retirement and health benefits

Makes changes to various sections of the Government Code governing the California Public Employees' Retirement System, including sections related to the Judges' Retirement System, and the Judges' Retirement System II, to increase administrative efficiency.
Chapter 237, Statutes of 2014

AB 2473 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: compliance

Conforms sections of the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 to provisions of the federal Internal Revenue Code in order to ensure compliance with federal tax law.
Chapter 740, Statutes of 2014

AB 2474 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) County employees retirement: benefits

Makes various technical corrections and conforming changes that align the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 with the provisions of the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2014

AB 2476 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Public employees' retirement and health benefits

Makes technical corrections to the Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) in order to clarify the Legislature's intent in enacting PEPRA and to assist affected employers and retirement systems in implementation of PEPRA.
Chapter 238, Statutes of 2014

AB 2483 (Allen-R) Public employees: retirement

Revises the composition of the Board of Administration of Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS Board). Increases to three the number of members of the PERS Board to be selected from the membership of the system and elected under the supervision of the PERS Board. Specifies this provision would not become operative until ratified by a majority of voters at a statewide election. Requires the Secretary of State to submit that provision of this bill to the voters at the next statewide election.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

State Teachers' Retirement System

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SB 984* (Walters-R) State Teachers' Retirement System: Defined Benefit Program

Makes findings regarding the current unfunded liability of the State Teachers' Retirement System; requires a $2 billion appropriation from the General Fund to the State Teachers' Retirement System, as specified and based on findings of the Legislative Analyst in the May Revision; and requires the Governor to form a working group to propose long-term funding solutions.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1220 (Torres-D) State teachers' retirement

Makes various technical, conforming, or non-controversial changes to the Teachers' Retirement Law to facilitate efficient administration of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which includes the Defined Benefit Program, the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, and the Cash Balance Benefit Program.
Chapter 755, Statutes of 2014

AB 708 (Nestande-R) Teachers: compensation: career technical education teachers

Requires, for a teacher who holds a five-year Clear Designated Subjects Career Technical Education Teaching Credential, that the three years of work experience, as specified, be deemed to be the equivalent of a baccalaureate degree, and requires that the holder of a five-year clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential be placed on and advance along the salary schedule of the school district in the same manner as a teacher with a baccalaureate degree.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1469 (Bonta-D) Budget Act of 2014: State Teachers' Retirement System

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact State Teachers' Retirement System provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 47, Statutes of 2014

Miscellaneous

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SB 854 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2014: state and local government

Makes various statutory changes necessary to implement the general government-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2014

SB 879 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Provides legislative ratification for memoranda of understanding agreements between the state and various state Bargaining Units.
Chapter 690, Statutes of 2014

AB 298 (Pan-D) Rural Health Care Equity Program

Reestablishes, until 1/1/15, the Rural Health Care Equity Program and extends the benefit provided by that Program to all state employees and retired annuitants living in rural areas, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 431 (Mullin-D) County Employees Retirement Law of 1937

Revises various provisions of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
(CERL) to explicitly conform with federal law. Provides that a member's accrued retirement CERL benefits are non-forfeitable, in accordance with federal law, once the member attains normal retirement age, as specified, or upon termination of, or discontinuance of contributions under, the retirement system. Also prohibits, upon the withdrawal of a district from a retirement system, a refund, distribution, or transfer of contributions for other funds to an employee or district unless in compliance with prescribed federal law.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 761 (Dickinson-D) Public retirement systems: investments

Prohibits the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System from investing in companies that manufacture firearms or ammunition for a recipient other than the U.S. military.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 785 (Weber-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: Board of Administration

Requires the California Public Employees' Retirement System, when requested by an employee organization that provides representation and other services to retirees, to provide assistance in performing a direct mailing to annuitants. States that the organization requesting the direct mailing is responsible for paying all costs associated with the mailing.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1163 (Levine-D) Public Employees' Retirement System: Board of Administration

Requires the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration (Board) to adopt a policy for providing education to Board members. Requires the policy to, at a minimum, identify appropriate Board education topics, establish a means to determine what qualifies as Board education, set a requirement that Board members receive 24 hours of education within two years of their appointment and ongoing for every two-year period thereafter, maintain a record of Board member compliance with the Board education requirements, and provide an annual report thereof to be posted on CalPERS' Internet Web site.
Chapter 140, Statutes of 2014

AB 1536 (Olsen-R) Public transportation employees: strikes: prohibition

Repeals provisions that authorize the Governor to appoint a board to investigate when it appears a strike will significantly disrupt transportation services, prohibit a strike during the period of investigation, and that authorize the Governor to request the Attorney General to petition a court to enjoin the strike. Instead, prohibits a state or local public transportation employee or public transportation employee organization from engaging in, causing, instigating, encouraging, or condoning a strike. Also provides that a person who, on behalf of a public transportation employer, exercises authority, supervision, or direction over a public transportation employee shall not have the power to, and shall not purport to, authorize, approve, condone, or consent to a strike by a public transportation employee.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1600 (Gomez-D) Service contracts: outsourcing alternatives

Establishes, as a condition for a state agency to use personal services contracts, a requirement that the contractor's wages be the higher of the industry's level or the prevailing wage, if applicable.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 2628 (Mansoor-R) County employees' retirement: Orange County

Permits the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, by resolution adopted by majority vote, to appoint an alternate member of the board of retirement. Entitles the alternate member to compensation equal to his/her counterparts for attendance without regard to whether he/she is a voting member and generally provides the alternate member with the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities as his/her counterparts.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

HR 18 (Roger Hernández-D) Diversity in state government

Recognizes the people of the State of California for the diversity of their workforce and draws special public attention to areas of state service where diversity could be improved.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

HR 29 (Gomez-D) Relative to outsourcing public services

Resolves that the California State Assembly opposes outsourcing of public services and assets, urges local officials to become familiar with the provisions of the Taxpayer Empowerment Agenda, and intends to introduce and advocate for responsible outsourcing legislation.
Adopted by the Assembly



Index (in Measure Order)

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Measure and Reference Author Measure Title
SB 24 - Civil Service Walters-R Public employees' retirement: benefit plans
SB 216 - Civil Service Beall-D Public employment: salary ranges
SB 217* - Civil Service Beall-D State employees: State Bargaining Unit 9
SB 259 - Civil Service Hancock-D Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees
SB 423 - Civil Service Huff-R Public transportation employees: strikes: prohibition
SB 503* - Civil Service Galgiani-D State employees: memorandum of understanding
SB 523 - Civil Service Correa-D Public employment: merit system: waiver
SB 572 - Civil Service Price-D In-Home Supportive Services Employer-Employee Relations Act
SB 619 - Civil Service Yee-D State employees: training: civics orientation
SB 673 - Civil Service DeSaulnier-D County employees' retirement: Contra Costa County
SB 774 - Civil Service Walters-R State employees: postemployment benefits
SB 775 - Civil Service Walters-R State employees: postemployment benefits
SB 778 - Civil Service Nielsen-R Public employment: salary ranges
SB 854 - Miscellaneous Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Act of 2014: state and local government
SB 879 - Miscellaneous Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee State employees: memoranda of understanding
SB 979 - Civil Service Beall-D Local public employee organizations: factfinding panel
SB 984* - State Teachers' Retirement System Walters-R State Teachers' Retirement System: Defined Benefit Program
SB 1071 - Civil Service Beall-D Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees
SB 1114 - Pension Reform Walters-R Postretirement health care benefits
SB 1202 - Pension Reform Hueso-D Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act
SB 1206 - Civil Service Evans-D State Personnel Board: administrative regulations
SB 1219 - Pension Reform Torres-D Public employees' retirement: service after retirement
SB 1220 - State Teachers' Retirement System Torres-D State teachers' retirement
SB 1240 - Civil Service Anderson-R State civil service: employment procedures
SB 1251 - Pension Reform Huff-R California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013
SB 1288 - Civil Service Huff-R State public employment: legislative approval
SCA 15 - Civil Service Yee-D University of California: retirement benefits
AB 160* - Pension Reform Alejo-D California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013
AB 208 - Civil Service Gorell-R State employees: additional compensation
AB 236* - Civil Service Rendon-D State employees: memorandum of understanding
AB 237* - Civil Service Rendon-D State employees: memorandum of understanding
AB 298 - Miscellaneous Pan-D Rural Health Care Equity Program
AB 431 - Civil Service Mullin-D County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: federal compliance
AB 431 - Miscellaneous Mullin-D County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
AB 507 - Civil Service Garcia-D Public employees' retirement: postretirement death benefits
AB 611* - Pension Reform Bonta-D State peace officers' and firefighters
AB 616 - Civil Service Bocanegra-D Public employee organizations: dispute: fact-finding panel
AB 708 - State Teachers' Retirement System Nestande-R Teachers: compensation: career technical education teachers
AB 761 - Miscellaneous Dickinson-D Public retirement systems: investments
AB 778 - Civil Service Bocanegra-D Public employee organizations: dispute: factfinding panel
AB 785 - Miscellaneous Weber-D Public Employees' Retirement System: Board of Administration
AB 837 - Pension Reform Wieckowski-D Public employees' retirement benefits
AB 872 - Civil Service Dickinson-D Public employees: rights
AB 931 - Civil Service Beth Gaines-R Public Employees' Retirement System: health benefits
AB 1163 - Miscellaneous Levine-D Public Employees' Retirement System: Board of Administration
AB 1378* - Civil Service Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State employees: memorandum of understanding
AB 1469 - State Teachers' Retirement System Bonta-D Budget Act of 2014: State Teachers' Retirement System
AB 1536 - Miscellaneous Olsen-R Public transportation employees: strikes: prohibition
AB 1550 - Civil Service Rendon-D School employees: collective bargaining
AB 1600 - Miscellaneous Gomez-D Service contracts: outsourcing alternatives
AB 1611 - Civil Service Bonta-D School employees: scope of representation: notice
AB 1681 - Civil Service Allen-R Public employees: benefits
AB 1783* - Civil Service Jones-Sawyer-D Public employees' retirement
AB 1820 - Civil Service Mullin-D State employment: applications
AB 1824 - Civil Service Rendon-D County employees' retirement: optional settlements revision
AB 1834 - Civil Service Williams-D Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees
AB 1881 - Civil Service Jones-Sawyer-D Public employee relations: Los Angeles
AB 2032 - Civil Service Bonta-D Civil service: employee hearings
AB 2126 - Civil Service Bonta-D Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: mediation
AB 2155 - Civil Service Ridley-Thomas-D Nurses and certified nurse assistants: overtime
AB 2419 - Civil Service Garcia-D Public employee relations: agency shop arrangements
AB 2472 - Pension Reform Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Public employees: retirement and health benefits
AB 2473 - Pension Reform Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: compliance
AB 2474 - Pension Reform Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee County employees retirement: benefits
AB 2475 - Civil Service Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State employees: memorandum of understanding
AB 2476 - Pension Reform Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Public employees' retirement and health benefits
AB 2483 - Pension Reform Allen-R Public employees: retirement
AB 2582 - Civil Service Bonta-D Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act
AB 2628 - Miscellaneous Mansoor-R County employees' retirement: Orange County
HR 18 - Miscellaneous Roger Hernández-D Diversity in state government
HR 29 - Miscellaneous Gomez-D Relative to outsourcing public services