AB 779, as amended, Cristina Garcia. Local government: financial disclosures.
Existing law requires a local agency, if it is required to report specified information to the Controller and if it maintains an Internet Web site, to post, in a conspicuous location on its Internet Web site, information on the annual compensation of its elected officials, officers, and employees, as specified.
This bill would require a city, county, city and county, or specialbegin delete districtend deletebegin insert district, on or before April 30 of each year,end insert to post a link on the homepage of its Internet Web sitebegin insert to a pageend insert that contains the names, positions, and total
compensation, including a breakdown of the types of compensation provided, of each elected official within that entity for the previousbegin delete fiscal year and the 10 employees with the greatest total compensation, as specified.end deletebegin insert Calendar year.end insert By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 53909 is added to the Government Code,
2to read:
(a) A city, county, city and county, or special district
4shall,begin delete within six months of the close of the fiscal year,end deletebegin insert on or before
5April 30 of each year,end insert post a link on the homepage of its Internet
6Web sitebegin insert to a pageend insert that contains the names, positions, and total
7compensation, including a breakdown of the types of compensation
8provided, of each elected official within that entity for the previous
9begin delete fiscal year and the 10 employees with the greatest total begin insert
calendar
10compensation, determined pursuant to subdivision (b).end delete
11year.end insert If a city or special district does not have an Internet Web
12site, it shallbegin delete work with the relevant county to post theend deletebegin insert compile thisend insert
13 informationbegin delete on the county’s Internet Web site.end deletebegin insert and make that
14information readily available upon request.end insert
15(b) The city, county, city and county, or special
district shall
16aggregate the total compensation for an employee, including all
17positions held by that employee during the fiscal year, to determine
18the 10 employees with the greatest total compensation.
19(c)
end delete
20begin insert(b)end insert For purposes of this section “total compensation” includes
21payments for salaries, overtime, unused vacation time, stipends,
22pension contributions, retirement contributions, health premium
23contributions, automobile allowances, phone allowances, and
24technology allowances. Any other type of compensation that the
25city, county, city and county, or special district provides shall also
P3 1be included and specified. “Total compensation”
does not include
2reimbursements or payments for work-related travel expenses.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
4this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
5local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
6pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
74 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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