BILL NUMBER: AB 2332	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 71621 to the Government Code, relating to
courts.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2332, as introduced, Wieckowski. Courts: personal services
contracts.
   The Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act
establishes a trial court employee personnel system that provides
authority to hire trial court personnel, regulates the classification
and compensation of trial court employees, labor relations, and
personnel files, and requires each trial court to establish a system
of employment selection and advancement and an employment protection
system.
   Existing law authorizes state agencies to use personal services
contracts to achieve cost savings if specified standards are
satisfied, including, among other things, the contract does not cause
the displacement of civil service employees and the contract is
awarded through a publicized, competitive bidding process. The State
Personnel Board is required to review a proposed contract upon the
request of an employee organization for compliance with those
standards.
   This bill would require, if a trial court intends to contract for
services that are currently or customarily performed by trial court
employees, that certain best practice requirements for responsible
contracting apply.
   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 71621 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   71621.  If a trial court intends to contract for services that are
currently or customarily performed by trial court employees, certain
best practice requirements for responsible contracting shall apply.