Bill Text: CA SB1358 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Collective bargaining: state employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-17 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1358 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1358-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1358	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to repeal and add Section 3521.7 of the Government Code,
relating to collective bargaining, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1358, as introduced, Walters. Collective bargaining: state
employees.
   Existing law authorizes the Public Employment Relations Board to,
in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or
classes of positions which have duties consisting primarily of the
enforcement of state laws. Existing law prohibits employees in these
designated positions or classes from being denied the right to be in
a bargaining unit composed solely of such employees.
   This bill would require the Public Employment Relations Board to
recognize positions or classes of positions designated as peace
officers under specified provisions that shall not be denied the
right to be a unit composed solely of those positions and classes.
   This bill would 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.  Section 3521.7 of the Government Code is repealed.

   3521.7.  The board may, in accordance with reasonable standards,
designate positions or classes of positions which have duties
consisting primarily of the enforcement of state laws. Employees so
designated shall not be denied the right to be in a unit composed
solely of such employees. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 3521.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   3521.7.  The board shall recognize positions or classes of
positions designated under Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830)
of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code as peace officers that shall
not be denied the right to be a unit composed solely of employees in
these positions and classes.
  SEC. 3.  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 to implement the terms of a negotiated memorandum of
understanding, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.