BILL NUMBER: AB 816	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social
Security (Correa (Chair), Firebuagh, Honda, Knox, and Pescetti)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1999

   An act relating to state employees, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 816, as introduced, Committee on Public Employees, Retirement
and Social Security.    State employees:  memoranda of understanding.

   Existing law provides that if any provision of a memorandum of
understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized
employee organization representing state civil service employees
requires the expenditure of funds, those provisions of the memorandum
of understanding shall not become effective unless approved by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would approve provisions that require the expenditure of
funds of unspecified memoranda of understanding entered into between
the state employer and specified employee organizations, and would
provide that the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that
require the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the
provisions of the memorandum of understanding are approved by the
Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
   The bill would also declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of
this bill is to adopt agreements pursuant to Section 3517 of the
Government Code entered into by the state employer and recognized
employee organizations to make any necessary statutory changes in
health, retirement, salary, or other benefits.
  SEC. 2.  The provisions of the following memoranda of understanding
prepared pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the Government Code and
entered into by the state employer and the following employee
organizations, and requiring the expenditure of funds, are hereby
approved for the purposes of Section 3517.6 of the Government Code:
   (a) Unit 2--Association of California State Attorneys and
Administrative Law Judges, dated ____.
   (b) Unit 5--California Association of Highway Patrolmen, dated
____.
   (c) Unit 8--California Department of Forestry Employees
Association, dated ____.
   (d) Unit 9--Professional Engineers in California Government, dated
____.
   (e) Unit 10--California Association of Professional Scientists,
dated ____.
  SEC. 3.  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6 of the Government Code, the
provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the
expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of
the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in
legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
  SEC. 4.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the provisions of this act to be applicable as soon
as possible in the 1998-99 fiscal year, and so facilitate the orderly
administration of state government at the earliest possible time, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.