BILL NUMBER: AB 2543	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 3543.7 of the Government Code, relating to
public educational employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2543, as introduced, Alejo. Public educational employment:
collective bargaining.
   Existing law requires a public school employer or its designees to
meet and negotiate with the exclusive representatives of employee
organizations with regard to matters within the scope of
representation. Existing law provides that the duty to meet and
negotiate in good faith requires the parties to begin negotiations
prior to the adoption of the final budget for the ensuing year, as
specified, so that there is adequate time for agreement to be reached
or for the resolution of an impasse.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
later provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3543.7 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   3543.7.  The duty to meet and negotiate in good faith requires the
parties to begin negotiations  prior to  
before  the adoption of the final budget for the ensuing year
sufficiently in advance of  such   that 
adoption date so that there is adequate time for agreement to be
reached, or for the resolution of an impasse.