Amended in Assembly March 31, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2019

Introduced by Assembly Member Santiago

February 16, 2016

An act to add Section begin delete 19829.2 end delete begin insert 89528.5 end insert to the begin delete Government end delete begin insert Education end insert Code, relating to public employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2019, as amended, Santiago. begin delete State end delete begin insert Public employment: California State University end insert employees: salary begin delete adjustments: State Bargaining Unit 3. end delete begin insert adjustments. end insert

Under existing law, the Department of Human Resources sets minimum and maximum salary limits for different classifications of state begin delete employees end delete begin insert employees, end insert and provides for intermediate steps within those limits to govern the amount of salary adjustment that an employee may receive at any one time. begin delete 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. end delete begin insert Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law also authorizes the trustees to employ persons in academic, administrative, and nonacademic positions and to provide for their governance in accordance with law. end insert

This bill would declare the policy of the state to provide for intermediate begin delete 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. end delete begin insert end insert begin insert step increases of 2.65 end insert begin insert %, or the percentage of the increase, if any, during the period between the intermediate steps, in the California Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers, whichever is higher, for salary adjustments for academic employees of the California State University. end insert

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.

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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.

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begin insert Section 89528.5 is added to the end insert begin insert Education Code end insert begin insert , to
read: end insert

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begin insert 89528.5. end insert   

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 step increases of 2.65 percent, or the
percentage of the increase, if any, during the period between the
intermediate steps, in the California Consumer Price Index For
All Urban Consumers, whichever is higher, for salary adjustments
for academic employees of the California State University.

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