| BILL |
AUTHOR |
SUBJECT |
DESCRIPTION |
AB
36 |
Neillo |
Public Employees Retirement - Fraud |
Ths
bill would make it a crime for
a person to make or present false
material statements and representations
in connection with those retirment
systems' benefits and applications,
as specified, or to aid or abet someone
in this regard. The bill would also
make it a crime for a person to knowingly
accept, with the intent to keep for personal
benefit, a payment from any of those
retirmenet systems with the knowledge that
one was not entitled to the benefit. The
bill would provide that a violation of
these provisions is punishable fy up to
one year in a county jail or a fine or
both and restitution as specified. The
bill would require any restitution order
imposed to be satisfied before any criminal
fine imposed may be collected, and would
further provide that its provisions are
cumulative. |
| AB
38 |
Nava |
State
Agencies: Office of Homeland Security |
This
bill would transfer the Office of
Homeland Security to become a division
of the Office of Emergency Services. |
AB 67 |
Dymally |
State Agencies: Bilingual Services |
This
bill would provide that a person
is qualified as a bilingual person,
employee, or interpreter for these
purposes if the State Personnel Board
has tested and certified the person
or approved the testing and certification. The
bill would provide that local agencies
would have discretion to determine
who is qualified to provide information
in a non-English language. The
bill would also authorize additional
grounds for the State Personnel Board
to exempt state agencies from the
reporting requirements. |
| AB 124 |
Price |
Meal & Rest Periods |
Existing law
authorizes the Industrial Welfare
Commission to adopt orders respecting
wages, hours, and working conditions. Existing
law prohibits an employer from requiring
an employee to work during a meal or
rest period mandated by the commision. Any
employer requiring an employee to work
during a meal or rest period mandated
by an order of the commission is required
to pay the employee one hour's pay for
each workday that the meal or rest period
is not provided. This bill would
extend the protections afforded to employees
covered by an order of the commission
to lifeguards and stage assistants who
are employed by the state or any political
subdivision thereof. |
| AB
130 |
Nakanishi |
Excluded
Employees: Salaries and Benefits |
This
bill would require that all excluded
employees who supervise or manage
state employees, as specified, receive
salary increases that are the same
as the salary increases granted to
the employees they supervise or manage,
and receive a benefit package that
is equivalen tot, or better than,
that of the employees they supervise
or manage. |
| AB
174 |
Price |
Civil
Service: Employment Discrimination |
This
bill would authorize the State Personnel
Board to award reasonable attorney
fees and costs to employees if the
board finds that discrimination has
occurred. |
| AB
219 |
Jefferies |
Disability
Retirement: Medical Examinations |
This
bill would provide that if a recipient
of a disability retirement allowance
under the California Public Employees'
Retirement System who is over the
minimum age for voluntary retirement
for service applicable to members
of his or her class, and who has
been receiving a retirement allowance
for less than 36 months, refuses
to submit to a medical examination,
the pension portions of his or her
allowance may be discontinued until
the withdrawal of the refusal. |
| AB
309 |
Tran |
State
Boards and Commissions: Salaries
- Suspended |
This
bill would specify that members appointed
to specified state boards and commissions
shall receive no salary for the 2007-08,
2008-09, and 2009-10 fiscal years,
except that they may receive a per
diem payment set pursuant to these
provisions during that time. |
| AB
385 |
Ruskin |
Public
Employee Salaries: Professional Scientists |
This
bill would require the Department
of Personnel Administration and the
exclusive representative of State
Bargaining Unit 10 to jointly survey
annually the salaries of comparable
occupations in other public agencies,
as specified on or before
January 10 of each year. The
bill would then require the dpartment
to submit a report to the Legislature
containing the survey findings and
would declare the policy of the state
to consider comparable salaries
prior to making salary recommendations. |
| AB 392 |
Lieu |
Military
Benefits |
This
bill would require a qualified
employer to allow a qualified employee
that is a spouse of a qualified membe
of the Armed Forces, National Guard,
or Reserves to take up to 10 days
of unpaid leave during a qualified
leave period, as provided. |
| AB
526 |
Evans |
Excluded
Employees: Mediation and Meet
and Confer Rights |
This
bill would extend meet and confer
rights to managerial employees. This
bill would also enact the Excluded
Employee Mediation Act to permit
an excluded employee who has filed
a grievance with the Department of
Personnel Administration, or an employee
organization that represents that
employee, to request mediation of
the grievance if specified conditions
are met. The bill would require
the designation of a standing panel
of mediators, or, under specified
circumstances, the provision of mediators
from the California State Mediation
and Conciliation Service within the
Department of Industrial Relations. The
bill would then require the mediator
to be chosen in a specified manner,
and would prescribe the duties of
the mediator. The bill would
also require the employee organiozation
and the employer to share the costs
of mediation. |
| AB
537 |
Swanson |
Family
and Medical Leave |
This
bill would increase the circumstances
under which an employee is entitled
to protected leave pursuant to the
Family Rights Act by (1) eliminating
the age and dependency elements from
the definition of "child," thereby
permitting an employee to take protected
leave to care for his or her independent
adult child suffering from a serious
health condition, (2) expanding the
definition of "parent" to include
an employee's parent-in-law, and
(3) permitting an employee to also
take leave to care for a seriously
ill grandparent, sibling, grandchild,
or domestic partner, as defined. |
| AB 554 |
Hernandez |
Public Employee Benefits |
This
bill would revise and recast current
provisions to permit the Board of
Administration of the Public Employees'
Retirement System to authorize an
employer to participate in the prefunding
of health care coverage and other
postemployment benefits for annuitants. The
bill would require a participating
employer to contract with the board
of administration regarding specified
terms and conditions of the prefunding
of health care coverage and other
postemployment benefits. |
| AB
652 |
Maze |
Employment
Rights |
This
bill would prohibit an employer from
discharging or refusing to hire an
employee or applicant on the basis
that the employee or applicant legally
stores a firearm in his or her vehicle
at the worksite, locked up and out
of public view. |
| AB
671 |
Beall |
State
Employment Preferences: Foster Youth |
This
bill would require that, in addition
to any other state employment preference,
qualified foster youth or former
foster youth, as defined, who become
eligible for certification from eligible
lists by attaining the passing mark
established for an entrance examination
be awarded an additional credit of
10 points for certin examinations,
or 5 points for an examination held
on an open, nonpromotional basis
under a specified provision of law,
except as provided. The bill
would require the State Department
of Social Services to provide certification,
as applicable, to a qualified foster
youth or former foster youth for
the purposes of these provisions. |
| AB
696 |
Hernandez |
Staten
Employees: Military Benefits |
This
bill would provide, for a state employee
employed by the state on or after
January 1, 2008, that military pay
and allowances does not include hazardous
duty pay, hostile fire pay, iminent
danger, or any other special and
incentive pay from the federal government,
for allowances earhned on or after
September 11, 2001, by a state employee
eligible for benefits pursuant to
these provisions. The bill
would permit tat state employee
to retain hazardous duty pay, hostile
fire pay, imminent danger, or any
other special and incentive pay provided
by the federal government on or after
September 11, 2001. |
| AB
791 |
Jefferies |
Governmental
Reorganization |
This
bill would create, on January 1,
2009, the California Public Safety
Agency. This bill would provide,
on January 1, 2011, that the California
Public Safety Agency shall consist
of the Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection, specified fire suppression
personnel, Office of the Sate
Fire Marshal, Office of Emergency
Services, Office of Homeland Security,
Office of Traffic Safety, Department
of the California Highway Patrol,
specified peace officer personnel,
and the Emergency Medical Services
Authority. In addition, this
bill would require, by January 1,
2010, each of these departments,
personnel, offices and authorities
to meet with the Secretary and develop
proposed internal organizational
structures. |
| AB
865 |
Davis |
State
Agencies: Live Customer Service Agents |
This
bill would require each state agency
to answer an incoming call with a
live customer service agent, subject
to certain exceptions. |
| AB
933 |
Jefferies |
Exempt
Employee Salaries |
This
bill sould revise provisions governing
the salaries, benefits, and raises
of various, exept state employees,
including the heads of various state
agencies. |
| AB
953 |
Krekorian |
Public
Employee Health Benefits: Parents
and Sibilings |
This
bill would require the Department
of Personnel Administration, when
entering into any contract for vision
care for state employees to extend
that coverage to a parent or sibling
of an employee, if specified conditions
are met. This bill would also
require the extension of health care
and dental benefits to a parent or
sibling of an employee, if specified
conditions are met. |
| AB
991 |
Calderon |
Deferred Retirement Option Program |
This
bill would establish the Deferred
Retirement Option Program as a voluntary
program in the Public Employees'
Retirement System (CalPERS) for the
excluded or exempt state employees
of State Bargaining Units 5, 6, 7
and 8. The program would provide
eligible members, upon retirement,
access to a lump sum in addition
to a monthly retirement allowance. The
program would also permit a specified
beneficiary to receive any remaining
balance upon the death of the member. The
bill would require that the program
be cost neutral to the state, direct
CalPERS to prepare a cost analysis
of the program and direct the Board
of Administration of CalPERS to implement
the program on July 1, 2008. The
bill would also require the actuary
to conduct an annual valuation of
the program and authorize the Department
of Personnel Administration to terminate
the program if it is not cost neutral. The
bill would provide that an excluded
or exempt state employee who participates
in the Deferred Retirement Option
Program, shall not pay contributions
to or receive service credit in the
Public Employees' Retirement System. This
bill would also provide that the
state shall not pay employer contributions
from the General Fund to the CalPERS
Fund relating to these employees. In
addition, this bill would provide
that an excluded or exempt state
employee of State Bargaining Units
5, 6, 7, and 8, who participates
in the Deferred Retirement Option
Program shall also participate in
the annual leave program and accumulate
no more than 12 hours of annual leave
credits per month. |
| AB
1377 |
Nakanishi |
State
Employees: Health Benefits |
This
bill would require the Board of Administration
of the Public Employees' Retirement
System to offer a high deductible
health plan, as defined in the federal
tax law, and a health savings account
option to public employees and annuitants. The
bill would establish the Public Employees'
Health Savings Fund, a continuously
appropriated trust fund within the
State Treasury, for payment of qualified
medical expenses of employees and
annuitants who elect to enroll in
the high deductible health plan and
participate in the health savings
account option, and would require
those employees and annuitants, and
their employers, to make specified
contributions to that fund. |
| AB
1523 |
Soto |
State
Employees: Compensation |
This
bill would continuously appropriate
from the General Fund and other specified
funds to the Controller an amount
necessary for the payment of compensation
and employee benefits to state employees
for work performed on or after July
1 of a fiscal year for which no budget
has been enacted. |
| AB
1605 |
Lieber |
Department
of Public Health: State Public Health
Nurse |
This
bill would require the director of
the State Department of Public Health
to appoint the State Public Health
Nurse as part of the executive team
of the department at a level no lower
than deputy director. |
| AB
1668 |
Leno |
Information
Technology: Open Document Software |
This
bill would require all state agencies,
beginning on or after January 1,
2008, to create, exchange, and preserve
all documents, as specified, in an
open extesible markup language-based,
XML-based file format, and to start
to become equipped to receive any
document in an open, XML-based file
format, as specified. This
bill also would require the Department
of Technology Services to evaluate
all open, XML-based file formats
and to develop guidelines for state
agencies in using open, XML-based
file formats. |
| AB 1702 |
Blakeslee |
Department of Transportation: Employees |
This bill would authorize the Department
of Transportation to conduct competitive
examinations on a position-specific basis
for specified managerial classifications
as agreed to by the SPB. |
SB 11 |
Migden |
Domestic partnerships |
This
bill would delete the same-sex and
age eligibility requirement, thereby
allowing any 2 persons who meet the
other specified criteria to register
as domestic partners. |
SB 26 |
Simitian |
State agencies: Collection of Data |
This bill would, with specified exceptions,
require any State agencies, commission
or board that directly, or by contract,
collects demographic data, as soon as
possible, but no later than January 1,
2017, to provide forms that offer
respondents the option of selecting one
or more ethnic or racial designations
according to specified federal standards. |
| SB
274 |
Dutton |
Government
Reorganization: Tax Functions |
This
bill would abolish the Franchise
Tax Board, and would provide for
the transfer of its powers and duties
to the State Board of Equalization,
operative January 1, 2009. The
bill would also provide for the transfer
of the tax administrative functions
performed by the Employment Development
Department and the Department of
Insurance to the State Board of Equalization,
operative January 1, 2009. |
| SB
497 |
Ackerman |
Political
Reform Act: Conflict of Interest
- Electronic Filing of Statements |
This
bill would allow a local filing officer
to permit or to require Statements
of Economic Interest to be filed
electronically in accordance with
regulations to be adopted by the
Fair Political Practices Commission. |
| SB
521 |
Wyland |
State
Audits & Evaluations |
This
bill would transfer all the audit
and evaluation duties to the Bureau
of State Audits and renmae the bureau
as the Bureau of State Audits and
Evaluations. The bureau would
also be responsible for auditing
the performance of State programs
and managers, and for recommending
actions to correct inefficiencies
or ineffectiveness that may exist. |
| SB
580 |
Wiggins |
Public
Employees: Health Benefits |
This
bill would authorize the Board of
Administration of the Public Employees'
Retirement System to contract with
out-of-state public employee pension
and health systems to provide health
care benefits to California employees
and annuitants who reside outside
the state. |
| SB
618 |
Alquist |
State
Agencies: Electronic Records |
This
bill would require each state agency,
no later than January 1, 2010, to
maintain all of its records in an
electronic format. It would
apply this requirement to any document
or writing containg information relating
to the conduct of the people's business
that is prepared, owned, used, or
retained by any state agency that
is not already in an electronic format. |
| SB
689 |
Correa |
Public
Employee Health Benefits: Vision
Care - Annuitants |
The
Vision Care Program for State Annuitants,
administered by the Department of
Personnel Administration, provides
vision care coverage to specified
state annuitants and their dependents,
as contracted for by the department. The
program is funded by annuitant premiums. This
bill would instead require the state
to fund 1/2 of the program costs,
subject to appropriation in the annual
Budget Act. |
| SB
695 |
Wiggins |
Public
Employment: Department of Fish and
Game |
This
bill would specify the need to recruit
and retain department wardens through
the provision of warden pay at levels
comparable to those offered by other
law enforcement entities throughout
the state. |
| SB
721 |
Ashburn |
State
Agencies: Succession Plans |
this
bill would require, by January 1,
2010, every state agency to establish
and implement a succession plan,
as defined. By January 1, 2012,
the bill would require every state
agency to report to the Legislature
on the success or failure of the
implemented succession plan, as specified. |
| SB
727 |
Kuehl |
Unemployment
and Disability Compensation Benefits:
Family Temporary Disability Insurance:
Grandparents, Grandchildren and Siblings |
This
bill would expand the scope of the
family temporary disability insurance
program to include grandparents,
grandchildren, parents-in-law, and
siblings within the definition of
"family member," and would make conforming
and clarifying changes in provisions
relating to family temporary disability
compensation. The bill would
also clarify that an individual,
who is entitled to a leave under
the FMLA and the CFRA, must take
the FTDI leave concurrent with the
leave taken under the FMLA and CFRA
if the FTDI leave is a qualifying
leave under the FMLA or CFRA. |
| SB
755 |
Alquist |
PERS:
Post Retirement Death Benefits |
This
bill would increase the sum paid
to a member's designated beneficiary
to $5,000 with respect to those state
members who retired on or before
July 1, 2008. |
| SB
760 |
Migden |
State
Excluded Employees: Deferred Compensation |
This
bill would require the state to match,
up to a maximum of 5% of the employee's
salary, any contributions made by
excluded employees to a deferred
compensation plan or tax-sheltered
annuity as specified. |
| SB 870 |
Ridley-Thomas |
State
Excluded Employees: Adverse Action |
This
bill would require an adverse action
against an excluded employee, as
defined, to commence within one year
of the cause for discipline. |
| SB
942 |
Migden |
Workers'
Compensation |
This
bill would provide that there is
a rebuttable presumption that an
employer has discriminated against
an employee if, after the employee
has been disabled from work as a
result of injury or illness arising
out of, or in the course of, employment
pursuant to which the employee is
eligible to receive workers' compensation
benefits, the employer refuses to
reinstate the employee to his or
her regular position with full wages
and benefits within one working day
after receipt of a written statement
by the employee's treating physician
that the employee is able to perform
the full requirement of the employee's
regular position, notwithstanding
the inherent risks of the position,
without risk of further injury to
the employee or other employees in
the workplace. This bill would
provide that it shall also be a violation
for an employer to require an employee
to perform additional physical duties
that were not required of the employee
prior to his or her injury as a condition
for returning to employment. This
bill would make it a misdemeanor
for an employer to refuse to reinstate
an employee to his or her preinjury
position pursuant to these provisions. This
bill would also provide that, for
injuries occuring on or after January
1, 2008, if the injury causes permanent
partial disability and the injured
employee does not return to work
within 60 days from the date an injury
is determined to be permanent and
stationary, the employee shall receive
a supplemental job displacement benefit,
and would revise the amounts of benefits
an injured employee would be eligible
to receive. This bill would
also provide that an employer shall
not be liable for supplemental job
displacement benefits if, within
10 days of the date the injury is
determined to be permanent and stationary,
the employee rejects, or fails to
accept, modified or alternative work. |
| SB
971 |
McClintock |
Government
Reorganization: Realignment & Closure |
This
bill would enact the Bureaucracy
Realignment and Closure Act of 2008. The
Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure
Commission would be created with
specified membership. Beginning
January 1, 2008, the Controller,
Director of Finance, Legislative
Analyst, Legislative Counsel, Milton
Marks "Little Hoover" Commission
on California State Government Organization
and Economy, and State Auditor would
be required to develop recommendations
for the closure or realignment of
state bureaucracies for consideration
by the commission. It
would require the commission to independently
evaluate the recommendations, conduct
3 public hearins, and, by January
1, 2009, have at least one member
of the commission visit each state
bureaucracy considered for realignment
or closure. The bill
would require the commission, not
later than July 15, 2009, to submit
a report of final recommendations
to the Governor and the Legislature
that establishes a list of state
bureaucracies that are proposed to
be realigned or abolished. It
would require the Governor, upon
approval of the list of recommendations,
to prepare the list as a reorganization
plan and to submit the plan to the
Legilature under provisions relating
to the Governor's reorganization
plans. |
| SB
1032 |
McClintock |
Disability
Retirement: Medical Examinations |
This
bill would provide that if a recipient
of a disability retirement allowance
under the California Public Employees'
Retirement System who is over the
minimum age for voluntary retirement
for service applicable to members
of his or her class, and who has
been receiving a retirement allowance
for less than 36 months, refuses
to submit to a medical examination,
the pension portions of his or her
allowance may be discontinued until
the withdrawal of the refusal. |
