BILL NUMBER: AB 1509	CHAPTERED  07/12/02

	CHAPTER  153
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 12, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 11, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 27, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 20, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 7, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Runner

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to amend Section 10205 of the Government Code, relating to
the Legislative Counsel.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1509, Runner.  Legislative Counsel:  holidays.
   Existing law establishes the holidays to which state employees in
the executive branch of government, including the Legislative Counsel
and the employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, are entitled.
   This bill would require that the Legislative Counsel and the
employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau observe any holiday to
which the Legislative Counsel and the employees of the Legislative
Counsel Bureau are entitled and that is also observed by the
Legislature on the same day that the holiday is observed by the
Legislature.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 10205 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   10205.  (a) The Legislative Counsel may employ and fix the
compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants
and clerical and other employees as he or she deems necessary for
the effective conduct of the work under his or her charge.
   (b) The Legislative Counsel and the employees of the Legislative
Counsel Bureau shall, to the extent that funds appropriated for the
support of the Legislative Counsel Bureau include funds for that
purpose, receive any or all of the employee benefits provided to
employees of either house of the Legislature.  The benefits that are
authorized by this subdivision shall be in addition to any other
employee benefits authorized by any other provision of law.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 19853, the
Legislative Counsel and the employees of the Legislative Counsel
Bureau shall observe any holiday designated pursuant to subdivision
(c) of Section 19853, that is also observed by the Legislature, on
the same day that the holiday is observed by the Legislature.