BILL NUMBER: SB 216	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 18, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Beall

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 31451 of   add
Section 18006 to  the Government Code, relating to 
county employees' retirement   public employment  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 216, as amended, Beall.  County employees' retirement.
  Public employment: salary ranges.  
   Existing law prescribes the duties of the Department of Human
Resources, which include the administration of salaries, hours, and
other aspects of the state's personnel system. Existing law requires
the Department of Human Resources to establish and adjust salary
ranges for each class of position in the state civil service, subject
to merit limits and except as specified. Existing law requires the
salary range to be based on the principle that like salaries be paid
for comparable duties and responsibilities.  
   This bill would require the Department of Human Resources to
address salary compaction and parity in determining salaries for
supervisory and managerial employees. The bill would also require the
department, if it determines that revenues do not allow the
department to implement a salary determination to increase any
excluded and exempt employee salaries in a given year, to provide to
the Legislature certain data on the salary determination. 

   The County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 prescribes the rights,
benefits, and duties of members of the retirement systems
established pursuant to its provisions.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to a
provision of the County Employees' Retirement law. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares the
following:  
   (a) The Department of Human Resources is established in statute
for purposes of managing the nonmerit aspects of the state's
personnel system.  
   (b) The Department of Human Resources, except as specified,
establishes and adjusts salary ranges for each class of position in
state civil service, subject to specified merit limits.  
   (c) Salary ranges are based on the principle that like salaries
should be paid for comparable duties and responsibilities.  

   (d) Salary compaction and parity are significant issues facing the
state in compensating its management team. Salary compaction occurs
when the salaries of subordinate employees approach, and in some
cases exceed, the salary of their supervisors. State policy is that
supervisory and managerial employees receive salaries 10 percent
above the pay of the classes supervised.  
   (e) In performing the salary setting function for excluded and
exempt employees, the Department of Human Resources is reluctant or
unable to recommend appropriate salary increases for exempt and
excluded employees when there is not a legislative appropriation to
pay the increased salaries as the Department of Human Resources
defers to the Department of Finance on these issues, even though the
Department of Finance has no direct role in establishing or
recommending the salaries of excluded employees.  
   (f) The intent of this bill is to address salary compaction and
parity concerns for supervisory and managerial employees, and, if the
Department of Human Resources determines that revenues do not allow
it to implement a salary determination to increase any excluded and
exempt employee salaries in a given year, require the Department of
Human Resources to provide certain data on the salary determination
to the Legislature. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 18006 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   18006.  (a) In determining salaries for supervisory and managerial
employees, the Department of Human Resources shall address salary
compaction and parity concerns, consistent with the principle that a
minimum 10 percent supervisory salary differential is appropriate for
supervisory and managerial employees above the highest paid
subordinate employees over whom the supervisor or manager has
authority.
   (b) If the Department of Human Resources determines that revenues
do not allow it to implement a salary determination to increase any
excluded and exempt employee salaries in a given year, the department
shall provide to the Legislature existing data on the salary
determination, including all salary compaction and parity
determinations for supervisory and managerial employees. 

  SECTION 1.    Section 31451 of the Government Code
is amended to read:
   31451.  The purpose of this chapter is to recognize a public
obligation to county and district employees who become incapacitated
by age or long service in public employment and its accompanying
physical disabilities, by providing for retirement compensation and
death benefit as additional elements of compensation for future
services, and to provide a means by which public employees who become
incapacitated may be replaced by more capable employees to the
betterment of the public service, without prejudice and without
inflicting hardship upon the employees removed.