BILL NUMBER: AB 1243	CHAPTERED  09/30/02

	CHAPTER  1144
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 17, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wiggins

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to amend Section 1151.5 of the Government Code, relating to
public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1243, Wiggins.  Public employment:  payroll deductions.
   Existing law provides that a state employee may authorize
deductions to be made from his or her salary or wages for payment for
support of an employee's child, family, or former spouse, and for
other purposes as specified.
   This bill would provide that a public agency, which is defined to
include counties, cities, municipal corporations, political
subdivisions, public districts, and other public agencies of the
state, may establish wage deduction programs for the purpose of
payment for the support, maintenance, or care of an employee's child,
children, family, or former spouse for whom the employee has a duty
of support, payment of an employee's legal judgment, garnishment or
deduction of an employee's wages pursuant to a court order, and
payment of an employee's loan or obligation to a commercial lending
institution.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1151.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   1151.5.  (a) In addition to deductions authorized pursuant to
Section 1151, a state employee may authorize deductions to be made
from salaries or wages for payment for the support, maintenance, or
care of the employee's child, children, family, or former spouse for
whom the employee has a duty of support.  A service charge may be
assessed for this deduction.
   (b) A public agency may establish payroll deduction programs for
any of the following purposes:
   (1) Payment for the support, maintenance, or care of an employee's
child, children, family, or former spouse for whom the employee has
a duty of support.
   (2) Payment of an employee's legal judgment.
   (3) Garnishment or deduction of an employee's wages pursuant to a
court order.
   (4) Payment of an employee's loan or obligation to a commercial
lending institution.