BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 1025| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: SB 1025 Author: Torres (D) Amended: 4/10/14 Vote: 21 SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 11-0, 4/8/14 AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Beall, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso, Lara, Liu, Pavley, Roth, Wyland SUBJECT : California Highway Patrol: communications operators SOURCE : CHP Public Safety Dispatchers Association DIGEST : This bill changes the title of California Highway Patrol (CHP) communications operators to public safety dispatchers and public safety operators. ANALYSIS : Existing law provides that when setting compensation for communications operators in the CHP, the Department of Human Resources may consider the total compensation for communications operators in comparable positions in the police departments of the cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Jose, and the City and County of San Francisco. This bill replaces the title "communications operators" with "public safety dispatchers and public safety operators," and deletes existing legislative findings related to those dispatchers and operators. CONTINUED SB 1025 Page 2 Comments Purpose of this bill . CHP employs over 800 public safety operators and dispatchers, who dispatch CHP officers and also annually answer several million 911 calls placed from cell phones. While their working title changed from communications operator over a decade ago as the result of collective bargaining agreements, legislation has never updated references in state statute. CHP began using "public safety dispatchers" and "public safety operators" in 2009. At the request of this bill's sponsor, the author introduced this bill to conform the working titles to those used in the state statute. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 4/14/14) CHP Public Safety Dispatchers Association (source) California Statewide Law Enforcement Association JA:k 4/14/14 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END ****