State civil service: veterans preference data.

The California Constitution requires civil service appointments to be made under a general system based on merit ascertained by competitive examination. The California Constitution allows the Legislature to provide preference for veterans and their surviving spouses. Under existing law, whenever any veteran achieves a passing score on an entrance examination, the veteran is required to be ranked in the top rank of the resulting eligibility list. Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources to, among other things, review, examine the validity of, and update qualifications standards, selection devices, including oral appraisal panels, and career advancement programs. This bill would additionally include the veterans preference system among those selection devices. Existing law requires the department to maintain a statistical information system designed to yield the data and the analysis necessary for the evaluation of equal employment opportunity within the state civil service. Existing law requires the statistical information to include specific data to determine the underutilization of groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability. This bill would additionally require that statistical information to include specific data to determine the underutilization of groups based on veteran status, as specified. The bill would also require that data analysis to include specific information pertaining to veteran status.