Bill Text: CA AB2494 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2494 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Personal services contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-09-23 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2494 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2494-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2494	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 19135 to the Government Code, relating to
personal services contracts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2494, as amended, Blumenfield. Personal services contracts.
   Existing law authorizes state agencies to use personal services
contracts if specified standards are satisfied, including, among
other things, the contract does not cause the displacement of civil
service employees and the contract is awarded through a publicized,
competitive bidding process. The State Personnel Board is required to
review a proposed contract upon the request of an employee
organization for compliance with those standards.
   This bill would require a state agency to immediately discontinue
a contract disapproved by action of the board or its delegate unless
ordered otherwise by the board  or its delegate  . The bill
would prohibit the state agency from circumventing or disregarding
the board's action by entering another contract for the same or
similar services or to continue the services that were the subject of
the contract that was disapproved.  The bill would require the
state agency to serve notice of the discontinuation of the contract
to the vendor within 15 days from the board's final action, and to
serve a copy of the notice   on the board and the employee
organization that filed the contract challenge. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19135 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   19135.   (a)    If a contract is disapproved by
action of the board or its delegate, a state agency shall immediately
discontinue that contract unless ordered otherwise by the board 
or its delegate  . The state agency shall not circumvent or
disregard the board's action by entering into another contract for
the same or similar services or to continue the services that were
the subject of the contract disapproved by the board  or its
delegate  . 
   (b) A state agency ordered to discontinue a contract shall serve
notice of the discontinuation of the contract to the vendor within 15
days from the board's final action unless a different notice period
is specified. A copy of the notice also shall be served on the board
and the employee organization that filed the contract challenge.
Failure to serve this notice may be grounds for rejection of future
contracts for the same or similar services that were discontinued.