BILL NUMBER: AB 2604	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 3501 of the Government Code, relating to
public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2604, as introduced, Williams. Local public employee
organizations.
   The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act authorizes a local public agency to
adopt reasonable rules and regulations after consultation in good
faith with representatives of an employee organization or
organizations for the administration of employer-employee relations
under the act. The act delegates jurisdiction to the Public
Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the
statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and
employees, including processing unfair labor charges.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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 3501 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   3501.  As used in this chapter:
   (a) "Employee organization" means either of the following:
   (1) Any organization that includes employees of a public agency
and that has as one of its primary purposes representing those
employees in their relations with that public agency.
   (2) Any organization that seeks to represent employees of a public
agency in their relations with that public agency.
   (b) "Recognized employee organization" means an employee
organization  which   that  has been
formally acknowledged by the public agency as an employee
organization that represents employees of the public agency.
   (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, "public
agency" means every governmental subdivision,  every
 district,  every  public and quasi-public
corporation,  every  public agency  , 
 and  public service corporation  , 
 and every  town, city, county, city and county 
,  and municipal corporation,  whether incorporated or
not and whether chartered or not   regardless of whether
incorporated or chartered  . As used in this chapter, "public
agency" does not mean a school district or a county board of
education or a county superintendent of schools or a personnel
commission in a school district having a merit system as provided in
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 45100) of Part 25 and Chapter 4
(commencing with Section 88000) of Part 51 of the Education Code or
the State of California.
   (d) "Public employee" means any person employed by any public
agency, including employees of the fire departments and fire services
of counties, cities, cities and counties, districts, and other
political subdivisions of the state,  excepting 
 except for  those persons elected by popular vote or
appointed to office by the Governor of this state.
   (e) "Mediation" means effort by an impartial third party to assist
in reconciling a dispute regarding wages, hours and other terms and
conditions of employment between representatives of the public agency
and the recognized employee organization or recognized employee
organizations through interpretation, suggestion and advice.
   (f) "Board" means the Public Employment Relations Board
established pursuant to Section 3541.