BILL NUMBER: AB 1184	CHAPTERED  10/13/01

	CHAPTER  788
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 13, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 12, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Oropeza

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add Section 3502.1 to the Government Code, relating to
public employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1184, Oropeza.   Local public employees.
   The existing Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, which governs local public
employer-employee relations, establishes the right of local public
employees to form, join, and participate in the activities of
employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of
representation on all matters of employer-employee relations.
   This bill would expressly prohibit punitive action, denial of
promotion, and threats of this treatment against a local public
employee for the exercise of any lawful action as an elected,
appointed, or recognized representative of any employee bargaining
unit.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 3502.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   3502.1.  No public employee shall be subject to punitive action or
denied promotion, or threatened with any such treatment, for the
exercise of lawful action as an elected, appointed, or recognized
representative of any employee bargaining unit.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that the provisions of
this act are declaratory of existing law.