BILL ANALYSIS �
AB 2387
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Date of Hearing: April 30, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mike Gatto, Chair
AB 2387 (Pan) - As Amended: April 21, 2014
Policy Committee: PERSSVote:6-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill exempts the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and
Training (POST) from specified notification requirements when
entering into personal services contracts for non-cost savings
reasons, and requires POST, when exercising its contracting
authority, to determine if the services to be provided cannot be
provided by the state civil service system because the services
are highly specialized, cannot be performed by civil service
employees, or are urgent or essential and delaying performance
would frustrate the need for the services.
FISCAL EFFECT
Negligible costs to POST. Potentially significant savings to
POST and the local agencies it supports from increased
efficiency in awarding contracts and delivering trainings.
COMMENTS
1) Purpose. According to supporters, this bill allows POST to
continue to retain outside state government instructors when
those services cannot be conducted by a civil service
employee, or where the services are urgent or essential and
delaying the delivery of these services would frustrate POST's
mission of providing the highest possible standard of
training.
2) Background. POST is responsible for developing and providing
training for peace officers and public safety dispatchers
throughout the state. Training certified by POST occurs as a
result of an identified training need, creation of regulation
by the Commission and/or direction from the Legislature. The
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POST program is primarily funded by persons who violate laws;
no tax dollars are used.
AB 906 (Pan), Chapter 744, Statutes of 2013, prohibited a
state agency from executing a personal services contract for
non-cost savings reasons, except in specified sudden and
unexpected situations, until it had certified that all
employee organizations that perform the type of work being
contracted out had been notified.
According to the author, POST contracts with very specialized
teachers and requires the experts in the field to train new
officers, and AB 906 inadvertently made it difficult for POST
to provide critical law enforcement training by slowing down
the approval of contracts. The author concludes AB 2387 will
fix this error.
Analysis Prepared by : Joel Tashjian / APPR. / (916) 319-2081