BILL NUMBER: SB 686	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pan

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to  amend Section 3562 of   add
Section 3581 to  the Government Code, relating to public
postsecondary education.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 686, as amended, Pan. Public postsecondary education: Higher
Education Employer-Employee Relations Act.
   Existing law, known as the Higher Education Employer-Employee
Relations Act, contains provisions relating to employer-employee
relations between the state and the employees of state institutions
of higher education, including the University of California and the
California State University, as well as the Hastings College of the
Law. These provisions assign major responsibilities for
implementation to the Public Employment Relations Board.  The
Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act provides specified
rights, provisions, and definitions for supervisory employees, as
defined, of the University of California and the Hastings College of
the Law, and excludes those employees from the general provisions of
the act.  
   Under the act, an "employee" or "higher education employee" is
defined as any employee of the Regents of the University of
California, the Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, or the
Trustees of the California State University. The act authorizes the
board to find that student employees whose employment is contingent
on their status as students are employees covered by the act only if
the services they provide are unrelated to their educational
objectives, or that those educational objectives are subordinate to
the services they perform and that coverage under this act would
further the purposes of the act.  
   This bill would provide that the definition of "employee" or
"higher education employee" also includes a supervisory employee
employed as a sworn peace officer by the University of California or
the Hastings College of Law. The bill would also make nonsubstantive
changes to a definition in the act.  
   This bill would provide that the general provisions of the act
apply, instead of the specified rights, provisions, and definitions
for supervisory employees, to supervisory employees who are employed
as sworn peace officers by the University of California or the
Hastings College of the Law, except as specified. The bill would
prohibit supervisory employees who are employed as sworn peace
officers by the University of California or the Hastings College of
the Law from being placed in the same collective bargaining unit as
nonsupervisory employees. 
   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.    Section 3581 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   3581.  (a) Except as provided in Section 3580.5 and this section,
this article shall not apply to a supervisory employee, as defined in
Section 3580.3, who is employed as a sworn peace officer by the
University of California or the Hastings College of the Law.
   (b) Supervisory employees described in subdivision (a) shall not
be placed in the same collective bargaining unit as nonsupervisory
employees.
   (c) Except as provided in this section, supervisory employees
described in subdivision (a) shall be subject to all other provisions
of this chapter.  All matter omitted in this version of the
bill appears in the bill as introduced in the Senate, February 27,
2015. (JR11)