Bill Text: CA ACR61 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: State employee merit awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 138, Statutes of 2013. [ACR61 Detail]

Download: California-2013-ACR61-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 61	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 8, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 13, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines

                        MAY 21, 2013

   Relative to state employee merit awards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 61, Beth Gaines. State employee merit awards.
   This measure would declare that merit award payments in specified
amounts, authorized by the Department of Human Resources, are made to
specified current or retired state employees whose proposals have
resulted in annual savings and net revenue gains by the state.




   WHEREAS, Section 19823 of the Government Code authorizes the
Department of Human Resources to make awards to current or retired
state employees who propose procedures or ideas that are subsequently
adopted and placed in effect and result in eliminating or reducing
state expenditures or improving state operations; and
   WHEREAS, Any award granted under Section 19823 of the Government
Code in excess of $5,000 must be approved by concurrent resolution of
the Legislature; and
   WHEREAS, Lawrence Crawford, Glenn Mochel, and Steve Sattler of the
California Department of Transportation suggested that rocker
switches installed in department vehicles to activate different
lighting equipment be identified by engraving directly onto the
switches, rather than requiring separate labels to be engraved and
subsequently installed on those switches, and to stock a supply of
commonly used prelabled switches, which resulted in a first-year
savings of $45,898; and
   WHEREAS, Andrew Seames of the Employment Development Department
created a macro for use by the department's Tax and Wage Corrections
Group, to reduce repetitive data entries and expedite the processing
of work items when correcting employer information in the database,
which resulted in a first-year savings of $81,937; and
   WHEREAS, Adrienne Redding of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation suggested replacing expensive and heavily-padded
exposure control jumpsuits required for inmates with a history of
indecent exposure, which were purchased from an out-of-state sole
source vendor, and instead using inmate labor for the in-house
manufacture of a lighter-weight version of the exposure control
jumpsuits at the California Correctional Center in Susanville, which
resulted in a first-year savings of $61,625; and
   WHEREAS, Steven Speck, Roger Shonafelt, and Dana White of the
Department of Water Resources suggested using polypropylene material
in lieu of steel material for radiator tank ends for motor air
coolers at 28 pumping plant units, which resulted in a total savings
of $204,965; and
   WHEREAS, The savings generated by implementation of these
suggestions will continue to be realized on an annual basis; and
   WHEREAS, As a result of actual savings generated from the
implementation of these suggestions, it is unnecessary to appropriate
additional funds for payment of awards to these employees; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
hereby declares that merit award payments, authorized by the
five-member Merit Award Board and the Department of Human Resources,
are hereby made in amounts up to and including 20 percent of the
first-year savings generated by each suggestion, as follows:
   (a) To Lawrence Crawford, Glenn Mochel, and Steve Sattler, in the
amount of $4,182, to be shared equally.
   (b) To Andrew Seames in the amount of $11,387.
   (c) To Adrienne Redding in the amount of $7,325.
   (d) To Steven Speck, Roger Shonafelt, and Dana White in the amount
of $15,501, to be shared equally; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Controller and to the Department of Human
Resources.