BILL NUMBER: AB 195	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 11, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 6, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Allen)

                        JANUARY 27, 2011

   An act to add Section 3506.5 to the Government Code, relating to
local public employee organizations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 195, Roger Hernández. Local public employee organizations.
   The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act provides for the representation of
local public employees by employee organizations and for the
execution of memoranda of understanding between those organizations
and local public agencies. The act prohibits a public agency or an
employee organization from, among other things, intimidating,
coercing, or discriminating against employees because they have
chosen to join, or not join, an employee organization. Existing law
requires a public agency to meet and confer in good faith, as
defined.
   This bill would specify that a public agency is prohibited from,
among other things, imposing reprisals on or discriminating against
employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by the act,
and would specify that knowingly providing a recognized employee
organization with inaccurate information regarding the financial
resources of the public employer constitutes a refusal or failure to
meet and negotiate in good faith. The bill would declare that these
provisions are intended to be technical and clarify existing law.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that the addition of
Section 3506.5 to the Government Code is intended to be technical
and clarifying of existing law.
  SEC. 2.  Section 3506.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   3506.5.  A public agency shall not do any of the following:
   (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to
discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or
otherwise to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees because of
their exercise of rights guaranteed by this chapter.
   (b) Deny to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them
by this chapter.
   (c) Refuse or fail to meet and negotiate in good faith with a
recognized employee organization. For purposes of this subdivision,
knowingly providing a recognized employee organization with
inaccurate information regarding the financial resources of the
public employer, whether or not in response to a request for
information, constitutes a refusal or failure to meet and negotiate
in good faith.
   (d) Dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of
any employee organization, contribute financial or other support to
any employee organization, or in any way encourage employees to join
any organization in preference to another.
   (e) Refuse to participate in good faith in an applicable impasse
procedure.