BILL NUMBER: AB 2475	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social
Security (Bonta (Chair), Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, and Wieckowski)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act relating to state employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2475, as introduced, Committee on Public Employees, Retirement
and Social Security. State employees: memorandum of understanding.
   Existing law prohibits a provision of a memorandum of
understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized
employee organization representing state civil service employees that
requires the expenditure of funds from becoming effective unless it
is approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would approve provisions of the memorandum of
understanding entered into between the state employer and State
Bargaining Unit ____ that require the expenditure of funds, and would
provide that these provisions will become effective even if these
provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than
the annual Budget Act.
   The bill would provide that provisions of the memorandum of
understanding approved by this bill that require the expenditure of
funds will not take effect unless funds for those provisions are
specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and would require the
state employer and the affected employee organization to meet and
confer to renegotiate the affected provisions if funds for those
provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of
this act is to approve an agreement pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the
Government Code entered into by the state employer and State
Bargaining Unit ____.
  SEC. 2.  The provisions of the memorandum of understanding prepared
pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the Government Code and entered into
by the state employer and State Bargaining Unit ____, dated ____, and
that require the expenditure of funds are hereby approved for the
purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 3517.6 of the Government Code.

  SEC. 3.  The provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved
by Section 2 of this act that require the expenditure of funds shall
not take effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically
appropriated by the Legislature. If funds for these provisions are
not specifically appropriated by the Legislature, the state employer
and affected employee organization shall meet and confer to
renegotiate the affected provisions.
  SEC. 4.  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6 of the Government Code, the
provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved in Section 2
of this act that require the expenditure of funds shall become
effective even if the provisions of the memorandum of understanding
are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual
Budget Act.