Bill Text: CA AB2854 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public employment: disqualification from employment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-19 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. [AB2854 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2854-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2854
| Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to amend Section 1021.5 of the Government Code, relating to public employment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2854, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer.
Public employment: disqualification from employment.
Existing law disqualifies, for 5 years, any person employed at will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer from any public employment, including, but not limited to, employment with a city, county, district, or any other public agency of this state, if that person is convicted of a felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of the duties of that person as a public employee.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1021.5 of the Government Code is amended to read:1021.5.
(a) If a public employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of(b) The five-year disqualification period described in subdivision (a) shall begin on the later of either of the following:
(1) The date of final conviction.
(2) The date on which the public employee is released from any incarceration.
(c) For purposes of this section, “public employee” means any person employed at will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013.
