BILL NUMBER: AB 2662	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Patterson

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 3520.5 of the Government Code, relating to
state employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2662, as introduced, Patterson. Employee organizations:
designation.
   Existing law requires the state to grant exclusive recognition to
employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules
established by the Public Employment Relations Board for employees of
the state or appropriate unit thereof, as specified. Existing law
also requires the board to establish procedures whereby recognition
of employee organizations formally recognized as exclusive
representatives pursuant to a vote of the employees may be revoked,
as specified.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3520.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   3520.5.  (a) The state shall grant exclusive recognition to
employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules
established by the board for employees of the state or an appropriate
unit thereof, subject to the right of an employee to represent
himself  or herself  .
   (b) The board shall establish reasonable procedures for petitions
and for holding elections and determining appropriate units pursuant
to subdivision (a).
   (c) The board shall also establish procedures whereby recognition
of employee organizations formally recognized as exclusive
representatives pursuant to a vote of the employees may be revoked by
a majority vote of the employees only after a period of not less
than 12 months following the date of such recognition.