BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 1062 Page 1 Date of Hearing: May 15, 2013 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Mike Gatto, Chair AB 1062 (Jones-Sawyer) - As Amended: April 15, 2013 Policy Committee: PERSSVote:10-0 Judiciary 9-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: SUMMARY This bill further clarifies the authority of the Department of Human Resources (CalHR), following the merger of the State Personnel Board (SPB) and the Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) initiated in the Governor's Reorganization Plan of 2011 (GRP 1), and updates civil service statutes to reflect modern processes and promote greater efficiency. Specifically, this bill: 1)Clarifies and streamlines provisions requiring state agencies to conduct a language survey every two years to determine the number of employees needed to provide services to non-English speaking people. Transfers the management of this program from SPB to CalHR. 2)Makes a host of other minor changes and technical amendments. FISCAL EFFECT Minor and absorbable costs. COMMENTS GRP 1 and companion measures, SB 1308 (PE&R Committee), Chapter 665, Statutes of 2012 and SB 1309 (Negrete McLeod), Chapter 360, Statutes of 2012, streamlined personnel management duties between the new CalHR and the SPB, but some of the statutes describing civil service operating authority were missed in the 2012 clean-up legislation. This bill makes technical amendments to the Civil Service Act AB 1062 Page 2 and one related Penal Code provision (regarding psychological screening of peace officers) to clarify the operating authority of CalHR as authorized by GRP 1 in order to support the reorganization. Analysis Prepared by : Roger Dunstan / APPR. / (916) 319-2081