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          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  








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          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