Bill Text: CA AB2662 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2662 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Employee organizations: decertification.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2662 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2662-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2662	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Patterson

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to  amend Section 3520.5 of   add
Section 3541.32 to  the Government Code, relating to 
state employees.   public employment. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2662, as amended, Patterson. Employee organizations: 
designation.   decertification.  
   Existing law creates the Public Employment Relations Board and
prescribes its powers, which include deciding contested matters
relating to the recognition, certification, or decertification of
public employee organizations. Under existing law, a decertification
petition must be accompanied by proof that at least 30% of the
employees in the established unit either no longer wish to be
represented by the incumbent exclusive representative or wish to be
represented by another employee organization.  
   This bill would require the board to complete and publish the
results of a decertification election within 90 days after the board
has determined the sufficiency of the proof of support for the
decertification petition.  
   Existing law requires the state to grant exclusive recognition to
employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules
established by the Public Employment Relations Board for employees of
the state or appropriate unit thereof, as specified. Existing law
also requires the board to establish procedures whereby recognition
of employee organizations formally recognized as exclusive
representatives pursuant to a vote of the employees may be revoked,
as specified.  
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 3541.32 is added to the 
 Government Code  , to read:  
   3541.32.  The board shall complete and publish the results of a
decertification election within 90 days after the board has
determined the sufficiency of the proof of support for the
decertification petition.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 3520.5 of the Government
Code is amended to read:
   3520.5.  (a) The state shall grant exclusive recognition to
employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules
established by the board for employees of the state or an appropriate
unit thereof, subject to the right of an employee to represent
himself or herself.
   (b) The board shall establish reasonable procedures for petitions
and for holding elections and determining appropriate units pursuant
to subdivision (a).
   (c) The board shall also establish procedures whereby recognition
of employee organizations formally recognized as exclusive
representatives pursuant to a vote of the employees may be revoked by
a majority vote of the employees only after a period of not less
than 12 months following the date of such recognition.