BILL NUMBER: AB 1783	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to amend Section 19635 of the Government Code, relating to
public employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1783, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Public employees: 
rights.   adverse actions. 
   Existing law requires notice of any adverse action against any
state employee for any cause for discipline based on any civil
service law to be served within 3 years after the cause for
discipline, upon which the notice is based, first arose. Existing law
provides that an adverse action based on fraud, embezzlement, or the
falsification of records is valid if notice of the adverse action is
served within 3 years after the discovery of the fraud,
embezzlement, or falsification.
   This bill would  , beginning January 1, 2016,  require
that notice of any adverse action for discipline, other than for
fraud, embezzlement, or falsification of records, be served and the
investigation completed within  one year from  
2 years after  the time the  discovery of the  cause
for discipline arose.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19635 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   19635.  (a) Except as  otherwise  provided in subdivision
(b), no adverse action shall be valid against any state employee for
any cause for discipline based on any civil service law of this
state, unless notice of the adverse action is served and the
investigation is completed within  one year  
two years  after the  discovery of the  cause for
discipline arose.
   (b) Adverse action based on fraud, embezzlement, or the
falsification of records shall be valid, if notice of the adverse
action is served within three years after the discovery of the fraud,
embezzlement, or falsification.
   SEC. 2.    This act shall become operative on January
1, 2016.