BILL NUMBER: AB 1397 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 645
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 20, 2014
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 28, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 13, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 17, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 12, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Committee on Veterans Affairs (Muratsuchi (Chair),
Chávez (Vice Chair), Atkins, Brown, Eggman, Grove, Salas, and Yamada)
MARCH 6, 2013
An act to amend Section 19792 of the Government Code, relating to
veterans.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1397, Committee on Veterans Affairs. State civil service:
veterans preference data.
The California Constitution requires civil service appointments to
be made under a general system based on merit ascertained by
competitive examination. The California Constitution allows the
Legislature to provide preference for veterans and their surviving
spouses. Under existing law, whenever any veteran achieves a passing
score on an entrance examination, the veteran is required to be
ranked in the top rank of the resulting eligibility list.
Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources to, among
other things, review, examine the validity of, and update
qualifications standards, selection devices, including oral appraisal
panels, and career advancement programs.
This bill would additionally include the veterans preference
system among those selection devices.
Existing law requires the department to maintain a statistical
information system designed to yield the data and the analysis
necessary for the evaluation of equal employment opportunity within
the state civil service. Existing law requires the statistical
information to include specific data to determine the
underutilization of groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and
disability.
This bill would additionally require that statistical information
to include specific data to determine the underutilization of groups
based on veteran status, as specified. The bill would also require
that data analysis to include specific information pertaining to
veteran status.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 19792 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
19792. The department shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide statewide leadership, designed to achieve equal
employment opportunity in the state civil service.
(b) Develop, implement, and maintain equal employment opportunity
guidelines.
(c) Provide technical assistance to state agencies in the
development and implementation of their equal employment opportunity
programs.
(d) Review and evaluate departmental equal employment opportunity
programs to ensure that they comply with state and federal statutes
and regulations.
(e) Establish programs to ensure equal employment opportunity for
all state job applicants and employees through broad, inclusive
recruitment efforts and other measures as allowed by law.
(f) Provide statewide training to departmental equal employment
opportunity officers who will conduct training on equal employment
opportunity.
(g) Review, examine the validity of, and update qualifications
standards, selection devices, including oral appraisal panels and
veterans preference systems, and career advancement programs.
(h) Maintain a statistical information system designed to yield
the data and the analysis necessary for the evaluation of equal
employment opportunity within the state civil service. The
statistical information shall include specific data to determine the
underutilization of groups based on race, ethnicity, gender,
disability, and veteran status. The statistical information shall be
made available during normal working hours to all interested persons.
Data generated on a regular basis shall include, but not be limited
to, all of the following:
(1) Current state civil service workforce composition by race,
ethnicity, gender, age, veteran status, department, salary level,
occupation, and attrition rates by occupation.
(2) Current local and regional workforce and population data for
groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and age.
(i) The data analysis referred to in subdivision (h) above shall
include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Data relating to the utilization of groups based on race,
ethnicity, and gender compared to their availability in the relevant
labor force.
(2) Turnover data by department and occupation.
(3) Data relating to salary administration, including average
salaries for groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability
and comparisons of salaries within state service and comparable state
employment.
(4) Data on employee age, and salary level compared among groups
based on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability.
(5) Data on the number of individuals of each race, ethnicity,
gender, and disability who are recruited for, participate in, and
pass state civil service examinations. This data shall be analyzed
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 19704 and 19705.
(6) Data on the job classifications, geographic locations,
separations, salaries, and other conditions of employment that
provide additional information about the composition of the state
civil service workforce.
(j) The data analysis referred to in subdivision (h) shall also
include, but not be limited to, all of the following pertaining to
veteran status:
(1) Data relating to the utilization of veterans compared to their
availability in the relevant labor force.
(2) Separation data by department and major occupational groups.
(3) Data relating to salary administration, including average
salaries for veterans and comparisons of salaries within state
service and comparable state employment.
(4) Data on employee age, and salary level compared among groups
based on veteran status.
(5) Data on the number of veterans who participate in and pass
state civil service examinations. This data shall be analyzed
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 19704 and 19705.
(6) Data on the recruitment efforts, major occupational groups,
geographic locations, separations, salaries, and other conditions of
employment that provide additional information about veterans in the
state civil service workforce.