BILL NUMBER: AB 2019	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Santiago

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to add Section 19829.2 to the Government Code, relating to
public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2019, as introduced, Santiago. State employees: salary
adjustments: State Bargaining Unit 3.
   Under existing law, the Department of Human Resources sets minimum
and maximum salary limits for different classifications of state
employees and provides for intermediate steps within those limits to
govern the amount of salary adjustment that an employee may receive
at any one time. State Bargaining Unit 3 represents teachers,
specialists, and librarians working for various state agencies,
including specified members of the California Faculty Association who
are employed by the California State University system.
   This bill would declare the policy of the state to provide for
intermediate steps of salary adjustments, in an unspecified
percentage, for members of the California Faculty Association within
State Bargaining Unit 3 that would be based on cost-of-living
adjustments tied to the California Consumer Price Index.
   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 the following:
   (a) From 2004 to 2014, inclusive, while student enrollment in the
California State University (CSU) system increased by 24 percent, the
numbers of CSU faculty increased by only 14 percent.
   (b) Systemwide, over the last decade, the number of tenure-track
and tenured faculty fell by 3 percent. While faculty numbers dropped
by 338 from 2004 to 2014, the number of students grew by 75,518.
   (c) Unlike every other public employee organization in state
government, CSU faculty currently do not have a salary schedule.
   (d) This lack of a salary schedule has resulted in compression and
inversion in faculty salaries.
   (e) Between increasing workloads and decreasing renumeration,
there are few incentives for university faculty to stay in the
profession.
   (f) It is a matter of parity for these employees to establish a
salary schedule for them in statute.
  SEC. 2.  Section 19829.2 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   19829.2.  In order for the state to recruit and retain skilled
professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches for the
California State University system, it is the policy of the state to
provide for intermediate steps of ____ percent for salary adjustments
for members of the California Faculty Association within State
Bargaining Unit 3, based on cost-of-living adjustments to the
California Consumer Price Index.