BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair
AB 1025 (Skinner)
Hearing Date: 8/15/2011 Amended: 4/13/2011
Consultant: Bob Franzoia Policy Vote: G O 13-0
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BILL SUMMARY: AB 1025, relating to the Board of Pilot
Commissioners, would do the following:
- Delete all references to inland pilots from existing law which
requires the board to adopt a training program for pilot
trainees.
- Recast the requirement that the executive director of the
board assign a commission investigator to inspect a reported
safety standard violation to instead require the executive
director to investigate the report by personal inspection, or by
assigning a commission investigator to inspect for compliance,
and report findings and recommendations to the board regarding
safety standard violations.
- Require an examination fee to be charged to each applicant to
the pilot trainee training program who participates in any
written or simulator examinations established by the board for
the purposes of determining admission to the pilot trainee
training program.
- Require that the fee be charged only to those who actually
participate in an examination and not exceed the board's
administrative costs.
- Require the moneys collected from the applicant to be paid to
the board and deposited into the Board of Pilot Commissioners'
Special Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, and be used only
to fund the pilot trainee training program.
- Require the board's assistant director to be appointed by the
Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing and serve at
the pleasure of the secretary as a career executive.
By increasing the amount of revenue deposited into a
continuously appropriated fund and by authorizing the
expenditure of money in that fund for a new purpose, this bill
would make an appropriation.
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 Fund
Revision of personnel $2 $4 $4 Special*
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classification (potentially up to $25
annually)
* Board of Pilot Commissioner's Special Fund
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STAFF COMMENTS: For 2011-12, the board is budgeted for one
assistant director position with a salary range (2009-10) of
$6,605 to $7,143. The proposed salary is $82,728. The proposed
executive director salary is $119,616 ($9,215 to $9,968).
This bill would reclassify the assistant director position as a
career executive. As of March 2008, the career executive
assignment (CEA) salary ranges are:
CEA 1: $6,173 to $7,838
CEA 2: $7,815 to $8,616
CEA 3: $8,594 to $9,476
CEA 4 $9,018 to $9,939
CEA 5: $9,544 to $10,520 ($13,381 for attorneys,
engineers and physicians)
Newly appointed CEAs receive the minimum of the range or five
percent over their most recent state salary. CEAs may receive a
five percent annual increase at the hiring department's
discretion, up to the maximum of the range. If the assistant
director salary is at the top of the range ($7,143), the
position would have a salary of $7,500 ($7,143 + $357) which
would be in the CEA 1 range. Staff notes creating a CEA in
statute bypasses State Personnel Board and Department of
Personnel Administration (DPA) review and determination of
whether workload and responsibilities justify a CEA level
classification and the appropriate compensation level. It is
unclear if the secretary could bypass DPA compensation
restrictions and set the compensation at a higher CEA level,
which, without exceeding the executive director's salary, could
be up to the minimum range CEA 5.
This bill refers to a career executive. Staff recommends this
bill be amended to refer to career executive assignment.
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