Bill Text: CA AB964 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State employees: memorandum of understanding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - Died on unfinished business file. (Reconsideration pending). [AB964 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB964-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 964	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social
Security (Hernandez (Chair), Fong (Vice Chair), Beall, and Torrico)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act relating to state employees, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 964, as introduced, Committee on Public Employees, Retirement
and Social Security. State employees: memorandum of understanding.
   Under existing law, a provision of a memorandum of understanding
reached between the state employer and a recognized employee
organization representing state civil service employees that requires
the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved
by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would approve provisions that require the expenditure of
funds pursuant to a memorandum of understanding entered into between
the state employer and an unspecified bargaining unit, and would
provide that these provisions will become effective even if these
provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than
the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would provide that provisions of the memorandum of
understanding approved by this bill that require the expenditure of
funds will not take effect unless funds for these provisions are
specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and would require the
state employer and the affected employee organization to meet and
confer to renegotiate the affected provisions if funds for these
provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. 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 approve an agreement pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the
Government Code entered into by the state employer and State
Bargaining Unit ____.
  SEC. 2.  The provisions of the memorandum of understanding prepared
pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the Government Code and entered into
by the state employer and State Bargaining Unit ____ and that require
the expenditure of funds, are hereby approved for the purposes of
Section 3517.6 of the Government Code.
  SEC. 3.  The provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved
by Section 2 of this act that require the expenditure of funds,
shall not take effect unless funds for these provisions are
specifically appropriated by the Legislature. If funds for these
provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature, the
state employer and the affected employee organization shall meet and
confer to renegotiate the affected provisions.
  SEC. 4.  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6 of the Government Code, the
provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the
expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of
the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in
legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
  SEC. 5.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the provisions of this act to be applicable as soon
as possible in the 2008-09 fiscal year, and thereby facilitate the
orderly administration of state government at the earliest possible
time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.