AB 1397, as amended, Committee on Veterans Affairs. State civil service: veterans preference data.
The California Constitution requires civil service appointments to be made under a general system based on merit ascertained by competitive examination. The California Constitution allows the Legislature to provide preference for veterans and their surviving spouses. Under existing law, whenever any veteran achieves a passing score on an entrance examination, the veteran is required to be ranked in the top rank of the resulting eligibility list.
Existing law requires the Department of Human Resourcesbegin delete (department)end delete to, among other things, review, examine the validity of, and update qualifications standards, selection devices, including oral appraisal panels, and career advancement programs.
This bill would additionally include the veterans preference system among those selection devices.
Existing law requires the department to maintain a statistical information system designed to yield the data and the analysis necessary for the evaluation of equal employment opportunity within the state civil service. Existing law requires the statistical information to include specific data to determine the underutilization of groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability.
This bill would additionally require that statistical information to include specific data to determine the underutilization of groups based on veteran status, as specified. The bill would also require that data analysis to include specific information pertaining to veteran status.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 19792 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
The department shall do all of the following:
4(a) Provide statewide leadership, designed to achieve equal
5employment opportunity in the state civil service.
6(b) Develop, implement, and maintain equal employment
7opportunity guidelines.
8(c) Provide technical assistance to state agencies in the
9development and implementation of their equal employment
10opportunity programs.
11(d) Review and evaluate departmental equal employment
12opportunity programs to ensure that they comply with state and
13federal statutes and regulations.
14(e) Establish programs to ensure equal employment opportunity
15for all state job applicants and employees through broad, inclusive
16recruitment efforts and other measures as allowed by law.
17(f) Provide statewide training to departmental equal employment
18opportunity officers who will conduct training on equal
19employment opportunity.
20(g) Review, examine the validity of, and update qualifications
21standards, selection devices, including oral appraisal panels and
22veterans preference systems, and career advancement programs.
23(h) Maintain a statistical information system designed to yield
24the data and the analysis necessary for the evaluation of equal
25employment
opportunity within the state civil service. The
P3 1statistical information shall include specific data to determine the
2underutilization of groups based on race, ethnicity, gender,
3disability, and veteran status. The statistical information shall be
4made available during normal working hours to all interested
5persons. Data generated on a regular basis shall include, but not
6be limited to, all of the following:
7(1) Current state civil service workforce composition by race,
8ethnicity, gender, age, veteran status, department, salary level,
9occupation, and attrition rates by occupation.
10(2) Current local and regional workforce and population data
11for groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and age.
12(i) The data analysis
referred to in subdivision (h) above shall
13include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
14(1) Data relating to the utilization of groups based on race,
15ethnicity, and gender compared to their availability in the relevant
16labor force.
17(2) Turnover data by department and occupation.
18(3) Data relating to salary administration, including average
19salaries for groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability
20and comparisons of salaries within state service and comparable
21state employment.
22(4) Data on employee age, and salary level compared among
23groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability.
24(5) Data on the number of individuals of each race, ethnicity,
25gender, and disability who are recruited for, participate in, and
26pass state civil service examinations. This data shall be analyzed
27pursuant to the provisions of Sections 19704 and 19705.
28(6) Data on the job classifications, geographic locations,
29separations, salaries, and other conditions of employment that
30provide additional information about the composition of the state
31civil service workforce.
32(j) The data analysis referred to in subdivision (h) shall also
33include, but not be limited to, all of the following pertaining to
34veteran status:
35(1) Data relating to the utilization of veterans compared to their
36availability in the relevant labor
force.
37(2) begin deleteTurnover end deletebegin insertSeparation end insertdata by department andbegin delete occupationend delete
38begin insert
major occupational groupsend insert.
P4 1(3) Data relating to salary administration, including average
2salaries for veterans and comparisons of salaries within state service
3and comparable state employment.
4(4) Data on employee age, and salary level compared among
5groups based on veteran status.
6(5) Data on the number of veterans whobegin delete are recruited for,end delete
7 participatebegin delete in,end deletebegin insert inend insert and pass state civil service examinations. This
8data shall be analyzed pursuant to
the provisions of Sections 19704
9and 19705.
10(6) Data on thebegin delete job classifications,end deletebegin insert
recruitment efforts, major
11occupational groups,end insert geographic locations, separations, salaries,
12and other conditions of employment that provide additional
13information about veterans in the state civil service workforce.
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