BILL NUMBER: AB 1363	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

    An act to amend Section 148 of the Labor Code, relating
to employment.   An act to add Section 37117 to the
Government Code, relating to local government. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1363, as amended, Roger Hernández.  Employment:
Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board.   Public
safety services.  
   Existing law provides for the creation and regulation of cities.
Existing law specifies the powers of the legislative bodies of
cities.  
   This bill would prohibit the legislative body of a general law
city from eliminating its entire police or fire protection department
except by an ordinance that is approved by a majority of the voters
voting on the issue at a local election.  
   Existing law establishes within the Labor and Workforce
Development Agency the California Occupational Safety and Health
Appeals Board to conduct hearings when an employer is served with a
special order relating to occupational safety and health appeals that
order.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 37117 is added to the 
 Government Code   , to read:  
   37117.  The legislative body of a general law city shall not
eliminate its entire police or fire protection department except by
an ordinance that is approved by a majority of the voters voting on
the issue at a local election.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 148 of the Labor Code is
amended to read:
   148.  (a) There is in the Department of Industrial Relations the
Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, consisting of three
members appointed by the Governor, subject to the approval of the
Senate. One member shall be from the field of management, one shall
be from the field of labor, and one member shall be from the general
public. The public member shall be chosen from fields other than
management or labor. Each member of the appeals board shall devote
his or her full time to the performance of his or her duties.
   (b) The chairman and each member of the appeals board shall
receive the annual salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with
Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
Code.
   (c) The Governor shall designate the chairman of the appeals board
from the membership of the appeals board. The person so designated
shall hold the office of chairman at the pleasure of the Governor.
The chairman shall designate a member of the appeals board to act as
chairman in his or her absence.