BILL NUMBER: AB 2477	CHAPTERED  09/28/02

	CHAPTER  1044
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2002

   An act to add and repeal Section 19836.1 of the Government Code,
relating to state employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2477, Steinberg.  State employees:  excluded and exempt
employees:  salaries and benefits.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Personnel
Administration shall establish and adjust salary ranges for each
class of position in the state civil service subject to any merit
limits contained in the California Constitution.  Existing law
further provides that these salary ranges shall be based on the
principle that like salaries shall be paid for comparable duties and
responsibilities and that the department, in establishing or changing
these ranges, consider the prevailing rates for comparable service
in other public employment and in private business.
   This bill would establish the State Excluded and Exempt Employees
Salary-Setting Task Force, to consist of no more than 12
participants, as specified, to create a new process to address the
status of salary and benefit levels of excluded and exempt employees,
as defined, and to recommend that process to the Governor and the
Legislature prior to July 1, 2004.  The bill would require the task
force, in preparing its recommendations, to consider the cost of
living as reflected in specified indices, the compensation paid to
comparable occupations or benchmark classes in California cities,
counties, and special districts, the University of California System,
the California State University, the federal government, and the
private sector, the wages, benefits, and other compensation paid to
rank-and-file state employees under approved memoranda of
understanding, and excluded employee salaries, benefits, and other
compensation items.
   The bill would make the provisions governing the task force
inoperative as of June 30, 2005, and would repeal these provisions on
January 1, 2006.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 19836.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   19836.1.  (a) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Excluded employee" means the same as in subdivision (b) of
Section 3527.
   (2) "Excluded employee organization" means the same as in
subdivision (d) of Section 3527.
   (3) "Exempt employee" means a state employee who is exempt
pursuant to subdivision (e), (f), or (g) of Section 4 of Article VII
of the California Constitution.
   (b) There is in state government the State Excluded and Exempt
Employees Salary-Setting  Task Force, which shall be formed to create
a new process to address the status of salary and benefit levels of
excluded and exempt employees.  The task force shall, prior to July
1, 2004, recommend to the Governor and the Legislature a process that
can identify and implement equitable salary and benefit changes over
time for excluded and exempt positions in state government.
   (c) The task force shall consist of no more than 12 participants.
Six participants representing state management shall be appointed by
the Director of the Department of Personnel Administration and six
participants shall be appointed by excluded employee organizations
registered with the state.  No person may receive compensation for
serving as a member except that release time shall be granted by the
state for employee organization members who are employed by the State
of California.  The chair of the task force shall be the Director of
the Department of Personnel Administration, or his or her designee.

   (d) Any process recommended by the task force shall at least
include consideration of the following:
   (1) The cost of living, as reflected in the Consumer Price Index,
the West Coast Index, and other key California statistics from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor,
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
   (2) Compensation paid to comparable occupations or benchmark
classes in California cities, counties, and special districts, the
University of California System, the California State University, the
federal government, and the private sector.
   (3) Wages, benefits, and other compensation paid to rank-and-file
state employees under approved memoranda of understanding.
   (4)Excluded employee salaries, benefits, and other compensation
items.
   (e) In preparing its recommendation, the task force shall consider
the history of excluded employee salary and benefit changes, the
timing of the change in the compensation process, factors affecting
excluded employee compensation, and the provisions of the excluded
employee compensation package.
   (f) The State Excluded and Exempt Employees Salary-Setting Task
Force shall remain in existence until June 30, 2005, and as of that
date this section is inoperative.  This section is repealed as of
January 1, 2006, unless a later enacted statute, enacted on or before
January 1, 2006, deletes or extends that date and the task force's
existence.