BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1413
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(Without Reference to File)
ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 1413 (Portantino)
As Amended June 6, 2007
Majority vote
HIGHER EDUCATION 4-2 APPROPRIATIONS 12-5
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|Ayes:|Portantino, Arambula, |Ayes:|Leno, Caballero, Davis, |
| |Beall, Ruskin | |DeSaulnier, Huffman, |
| | | |Karnette, Krekorian, |
| | | |Lieu, Ma, Nava, Solorio, |
| | | |Feuer |
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|Nays:|Horton, Cook |Nays:|Walters, Emmerson, La |
| | | |Malfa, Nakanishi, Sharon |
| | | |Runner |
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SUMMARY : Makes numerous changes to the California State
University (CSU) Board of Trustees (BOT) to improve communications
between the CSU Trustees and the Legislature. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Allows ex-officio members of CSU BOT to designate a person to
attend board meetings in his or her absence and to act on his or
her behalf at those meetings.
2)Prohibits the CSU Trustees, on and after January 1, 2008, from
approving a contract for the hiring of an executive officer
unless that contract and its terms are adopted, by resolution,
in a duly noticed meeting of the board.
3)Requires that, to the extent the CSU Trustees approve transition
pay for executive officers who are ceasing to perform their
regular duties, transition pay cannot exceed the compensation
received by the executive officer in the last year of regular
duties and can only be paid for actual duties performed.
4)Provides that, when the CSU Trustees approve executive
compensation in the form of trustee professorships at the time
an executive officer ceases to perform his or her regular
duties, this compensation cannot exceed the amount a full CSU
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professor would be paid for a similar teaching assignment.
FISCAL EFFECT : Negligible fiscal impact to CSU.
COMMENTS : In July 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle published a
series of articles about transition compensation provided to
former CSU executives who were leaving their positions, revealing
previously secret compensation packages that included transition
pay, professorships and special benefits. Specifically, the
articles revealed that executives were frequently granted
transition pay as part of the CSU Executive Transition Program,
allowing a full year's pay without specified duties. Several
executives had begun other full-time positions and still received
CSU transition pay. Executives were also provided "trustee
professorships," although some executives apparently did not
assume teaching duties while receiving this pay. Finally, these
transition pay benefits were not disclosed in public session and
were not approved by the CSU BOT.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960 FN: 0001481