BILL NUMBER: SB 37	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 25, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 1, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Strickland

                        DECEMBER 18, 2008

   An act to amend Section 19849.7 of the Government Code, relating
to public employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 37, as amended, Strickland. State employees: statement of
deductions.
   Existing law requires each state agency, at the time of each
payment of salary or wages, to furnish each employee, at his or her
discretion, an itemized statement in writing or electronically
showing all deductions made from his or her salary or wages as
required by specified provisions of law.
   This bill would require that the itemized statement described
above be provided  to each employee  electronically
 to each employee who has authorized the direct deposit by
electronic fund transfer of his or her   salary or wages, as
specified  , unless the employee has requested, in writing, to
receive a paper version of the statement.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19849.7 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   19849.7.  (a) Each state agency shall at the time of each payment
of salary or wages, whether by direct deposit by electronic fund
transfer pursuant to Sections 12480 and 12481 or otherwise, furnish
each employee an itemized statement showing all deductions made from
his or her salary or wages as required by Section 226 of the Labor
Code.
   (b) The itemized statement described in subdivision (a) shall be
provided  to each employee electronically  
electronically to each employee who has authorized the direct deposit
by electronic fund transfer of his or her salary or wages  
pursuant to Section 12480 , unless the employee has requested,
in writing, to receive a paper version of the statement.
   (c) The provision of an electronic statement of itemized
deductions pursuant to this section shall be contingent upon the
funding and implementation of the Controller's "21st Century Project,"
and provided only to the extent that the project enables the
Controller to provide this information electronically.