Bill Text: CA AB837 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of California: employee salaries and other information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB837 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB837-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 837	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add  Section   Sections 
92611.3  of   and 92611.4 to  the Education
Code, relating to the University of California.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 837, as amended, Roger Hernández. University of California:
employee  salaries.   salaries and other
information. 
   Under existing law, the University of California, under the
administration of the Regents of the University of California, is one
of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state.
Under existing law, the regents have all the powers necessary or
convenient for the administration of the university, including the
power to employ officers and employees of the university, but are
subject to such legislative control as may be necessary to ensure the
security of university funds.
   This bill would express findings and declarations of the
Legislature relating to salaries paid to some officers and employees
of the University of California.  The   As a
condition of the receipt of   state funding in the annual
Budget Act, the  bill would prohibit the University of
California  , as a condition of the receipt of state funding
in the annual Budget Act,  from paying any of its employees
or officers a salary that exceeds $500,000 in any fiscal year  ,
and would require the University of California to publish specified
information regarding its employees  .
   Vote: majority. 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 both of the
following:
   (a) The California Constitution states that the University of
California is subject to such legislative control as may be necessary
to ensure the security of its funds.
   (b) There is substantial public concern about the high salaries
paid, out of taxpayer dollars, to some University of California
officers and employees.
  SEC. 2.  Section 92611.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   92611.3.  As a condition of the receipt of state funding in the
annual Budget Act, the University of California shall not pay any of
its employees or officers a salary that exceeds five hundred thousand
dollars ($500,000) in any fiscal year.
   SEC. 3.    Section 92611.4 is added to the  
Education Code   , to read:  
   92611.4.  As a condition of the receipt of state funding in the
annual Budget Act, the University of California shall comply with all
of the following:
   (a) Publish, commencing on or before February 1, 2016, and by
every February 1 thereafter, the following information regarding each
University of California employee for the prior calendar year ending
December 31:
   (1) Calendar year.
   (2) Location of employment.
   (3) Original date of hire.
   (4) First and last name.
   (5) Title of employment.
   (6) Regular pay, overtime pay, gross pay, and other pay.
   (7) Cost of employer-paid defined benefit plan contributions.
   (8) Cost of employer-paid contributions to deferred compensation
other than defined benefit plan contributions.
   (9) Cost of employer-paid contributions toward medical, health, or
welfare benefits, or any combination of benefits thereof.
   (10) Total annual cost of employer-paid contributions toward
deferred compensation and medical, health, or welfare benefits.
   (11) All sources of funding for compensation costs in dollar
amounts by funding source.
   (12) Personnel program.
   (13) The three-character Occupational Subgroup Category Code if
the employee is nonacademic staff, or the three-character Class Title
Outline Code if the employee is academic staff.
   (b) Publish, for April and October of each year, statistical
summary information that includes the total headcount and the total
full-time equivalent count of University of California employees at
each campus. These statistical summaries shall include a breakdown
showing the number of employees in each single-character and
three-character Occupational Subgroup Category Code for nonacademic
staff within each personnel group, and the number of employees in
each single-character and three-character Class Title Outline Code
for academic staff within each personnel group.
   (c) Publish all of the information required by this section on a
publically accessible Internet Web site and the information shall be
downloadable from that Internet Web site in either a comma delimited
or Microsoft Excel format.