Bill Text: CA SB957 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 957 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public Employment Relations Board: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District: employee relations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 240, Statutes of 2022. [SB957 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB957-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate March 09, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 957

Introduced by Senator Laird

February 09, 2022

An act to ~~amend~~ add Section ~~21673 of~~ 98169 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to ~~airports.~~ public employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 957, as amended, Laird. ~~Airport land use commissions.~~ Public Employment Relations Board: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.

Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of specified public employers and employees under various acts regulating collective bargaining. Existing law includes within PERB’s jurisdiction the resolution of disputes alleging violation of rules and regulations adopted by a public agency, as defined, concerning unit determinations, representations, recognition, and elections, as specified.
Existing law provides for the establishment of the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District. Existing law requires any question as to whether a majority of the district’s employees in an appropriate unit desire to be represented by a labor organization to be submitted to PERB. Existing law requires the district to bargain in good faith with a duly designated or certified labor organization and, when an agreement is reached, to execute a written collective bargaining agreement with the labor organization covering the wages, hours, and working conditions of the employees represented by the labor organization in an appropriate unit, and to comply with the terms of the agreement, as specified.
This bill would require employers and employees of the district to adjudicate complaints of specified labor violations before PERB as an unfair practice. By requiring the district to adjudicate claims before PERB, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
The State Aeronautics Act governs the creation and operation of airports in this state. The act requires a county in which there is an airport served by a scheduled airline, with certain exceptions, to establish an airport land use commission. The act additionally requires each county in which there is an airport operated for the benefit of the public to establish an airport land use commission, but authorizes the board of supervisors of a county, upon making certain findings, to declare that the county is exempt from establishing an airport land use commission. In any county not having a commission or a body designated to carry out the responsibilities of a commission, the act authorizes any owner of a public airport to initiate proceedings for the creation of a commission by presenting a request to the board of supervisors that a commission be created and showing the need for the commission to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors.
~~This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.~~

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NOYES

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 98169 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

98169.
Notwithstanding any other law, a complaint alleging any violation of this chapter or of any rules and regulations adopted by the district shall be processed as an unfair practice charge by the Public Employment Relations Board.

SEC. 2.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique need of the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District to efficiently and cost-effectively adjudicate unfair labor practice complaints.

SEC. 3.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

SECTION 1.Section 21673 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:
21673.
In any county not having a commission or a body designated to carry out the responsibilities of a commission, any owner of a public airport may initiate proceedings for the creation of a commission by presenting a request to the board of supervisors that a commission be created and showing the need for the commission to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors.