BILL NUMBER: AB 2648	CHAPTERED  07/24/00

	CHAPTER   208
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 24, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 24, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 6, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 18, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2000

   An act to amend Section 4519 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to psychiatric technicians.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2648, Calderon.  Psychiatric technicians.
   Existing law requires the Board of Vocational Nursing and
Psychiatric Technicians to provide for a continuing education program
and authorizes a specified fee to be imposed in connection with the
approval of courses. Existing law also provides that no state funds,
except as specified, shall be expended in releasing psychiatric
technicians employed by the state from duty to attend continuing
education courses.
   This bill would allow a memorandum of understanding reached by
negotiation between the Governor and a recognized state employee
organization to be controlling over the statutory provision regarding
expending state funds to release psychiatric technicians from duty
to attend continuing education programs, if the memorandum of
understanding and the provision are in conflict.  However, if the
memorandum of understanding requires the expenditure of funds, the
Legislature's annual approval in the Budget Act would be required
before the memorandum of understanding's provisions would become
effective.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 4519 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   4519.  (a) In the case of a person who is employed by the state as
a psychiatric technician, no state funds shall be expended in
releasing the person from duty to attend continuing education
courses, other than funds for in-service training and related
state-provided programs.
   (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the
provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to
Section 3517.5 of the Government Code, the memorandum of
understanding shall be controlling without further legislative
action, except that, if the provisions of a memorandum of
understanding require the expenditure of funds, the provisions shall
not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual
Budget Act.