Bill Text: CA AB790 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State employees: compensation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-18 - To inactive file on motion of Senator Correa. [AB790 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB790-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 790	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ruskin

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act relating to state scientists.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 790, as introduced, Ruskin. State scientists: salaries.
   Existing law generally requires the Department of Personnel
Administration to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class
of position in the state civil service subject to any constitutional
merit limits. Existing law requires the salary range to be based on
the principle that like salaries shall be paid for comparable duties
and responsibilities. Existing law prohibits the department from
making any adjustments that require expenditures in excess of
existing appropriations that may be used for salary increase
purposes.
   This bill would implement the salary determinations of the
Department of Personnel Administration for 14 classifications of
state scientist supervisory employees covered by the April 28, 2008,
Director's Decision of the Department of Personnel Administration.
   The bill would specify that it would not provide additional funds
to departments for the state employee compensation increases
associated with the provisions of that decision that become effective
during the 2008-09 fiscal year. The bill would state that prior
specified appropriations may include amounts for continuing employee
benefits that are more than the level of funding for employee
benefits reflected in the state's overall spending plan for the
2008-09 fiscal year.
   The bill would also authorize the Department of Finance to
transfer appropriation authority between the separate specified items
of appropriation, as permitted by the Budget Act of 2008, to ensure
that each department's expenditures will be consistent with the
appropriations authorized by the Budget Act of 2008 or any other
appropriation available to that department in order to mitigate
unfunded employee compensation increases to be effective during the
2008-09 fiscal year.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of
this act is to implement the salary determinations of the Department
of Personnel Administration for 14 classifications of state scientist
supervisory employees covered by the April 28, 2008, Director's
Decision of the Department of Personnel Administration.
  SEC. 2.  This act does not provide additional funds to departments
for the state employee compensation increases associated with the
provisions of the April 28, 2008, Director's Decision of the
Department of Personnel Administration that become effective during
the 2008-09 fiscal year. The appropriations for expenditure in the
2008-09 fiscal year in augmentation of, and for the purpose of, state
employee compensation as provided in Items 9800-001-0001,
9800-001-0494, and 9800-001-0988 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of
2008 (Chapter 268 of the Statutes of 2008) may include amounts for
continuing employee benefits that are more than the level of funding
for employee benefits reflected in the state's overall spending plan
for the 2008-09 fiscal year.
  SEC. 3.  To mitigate unfunded employee compensation increases to be
effective during the 2008-09 fiscal year, the Director of Finance is
authorized to transfer appropriation authority between the separate
items of appropriation in Section 2, as permitted by the Budget Act
of 2008, to ensure that each department's expenditures will be
consistent with the appropriations authorized by the Budget Act of
2008 or any other appropriation available to that department. The
transfers authorized by this section may be from one department or
program to a different department or program, within the same fund
source.