BILL NUMBER: AB 1820	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 18934 of the Government
Code, relating to state employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1820, as amended, Mullin. State employment: applications.
   Existing law requires every applicant for examination for state
employment to file an application with the Department of Human
Resources or an appointing power designated by the department.
   This bill would, commencing on July 1,  2016, 
 2017,  require the department or the designated appointing
power, whenever it receives an application for examination that was
filed online, to provide the electronic communication address of the
department or the designated appointing power to the applicant, to
contact the applicant using electronic communication instead of
postal mail, unless the applicant specifically requests otherwise,
and to inform the applicant that he or she be provided with
employment inquiry notifications and his or score and rank on the
examination using electronic communication unless the applicant
specifically requests to be notified using postal mail. The bill
would also make related nonsubstantive changes.
   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 18934 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   18934.  (a) (1) Every applicant for examination shall file an
application with the department or a designated appointing power as
directed in the examination announcement. Applications shall be
accepted free of any charge to the applicant. Filed applications and
all other examination materials, including examination questions and
any written material, are the property of the department and are
confidential records not open to inspection except as provided by
law.
    (2) The application shall include a place for listing volunteer
experience and that experience shall be considered if it is relevant
to the position being applied for and shall state that relevant
volunteer experience will be given consideration as qualifying
experience for state employment.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 
2016,   2017,  and is repealed on January 1,
 2017.   2018. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 18934 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   18934.  (a) (1) Every applicant for examination shall file an
application with the department or a designated appointing power as
directed in the examination announcement. Applications shall be
accepted free of any charge to the applicant. Filed applications and
all other examination materials, including examination questions and
any written material, are the property of the department and are
confidential records not open to inspection except as provided by
law.
   (2) The application shall include a place for listing volunteer
experience and that experience shall be considered if it is relevant
to the position being applied for and shall state that relevant
volunteer experience will be given consideration as qualifying
experience for state employment.
   (b) Whenever the department or a designated appointing power
receives an application for examination that was filed online, the
department, or the designated appointing power, shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Provide the electronic communication address of the department
or the electronic communication address of the designated appointing
power to the applicant.
   (2) Contact the applicant using electronic communication instead
of postal mail, unless the applicant specifically requests otherwise.

   (3) Inform the applicant that he or she will be provided with
employment inquiry notifications and his or her score and rank on the
examination using electronic communication, unless the applicant
specifically requests to be notified using postal mail.
   (c) This section shall become operative on July 1,  2016.
  2017.