BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2742
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Date of Hearing: May 5, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2742 (Blakeslee) - As Amended: April 22, 2010
Policy Committee: P.E.R. &
S.S.Vote: 6-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill allows state employees to donate leave credits to a
leave bank of an eligible retired state employee who dies from a
non-work related illness or injury within 12 months of
retirement. Specifically, this bill:
1)Applies to retired state employees who at the time of
retirement were members of a collective bargaining unit that
had bargained for a survivor's benefit that authorizes
donation of leave credits for non-work illness or injury.
2)Specifies that the donated leave cannot exceed $50,000 and
will be cashed out to the person designated to receive the
deceased employee's leave balance.
3)Applies retroactively to anyone who retired on or after
December 1, 2009. Leave donations for a retired state
employee who died on or before December 31, 2010, will be
accepted until January 31, 2011.
FISCAL EFFECT
Unknown, probably minor increase in state costs from utilization
of leave credits allowed by this bill.
COMMENTS
1)Background . State Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections) agreed,
through collective bargaining, to language allowing Survivor
Benefit Accounts to be established for active employees who
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die as a result of a non-work related illness or injury.
Employees are allowed to donate annual leave, vacation,
holiday, personal leave or excess time to the leave bank of
the deceased employee. The maximum limit of
contributions/compensation is limited to $50,000 and donations
are only accepted for a period of 30 days following approval
of the request
2)Rationale . The bill is intended to address a situation where
the family of a correctional officer was denied leave
contributions due to the fact that the officer retired days
before his death. According to the author, "On January 7,
2010, CCPOA correctional officer Lt. VanHoose, died of brain
cancer. He left behind his wife Stacy and a daughter. Lt.
VanHoose had continued to work throughout his illness. He
took an early medical retirement on December 29, 2009, only
days before his death. After he passed away, many of his
co-workers wanted to honor their colleague and support his
family by donating their leave time to a Survivor Benefit
Account. The request was denied by the California Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR's) Office of Labor
Relations and Human Resources. It was determined upon further
review that his family was not eligible because Lt. VanHoose
was retired at the time of his death."
Analysis Prepared by : Brad Williams / APPR. / (916) 319-2081