State employees: disciplinary action.

The State Civil Service Act requires notice of any adverse action against any state employee for any cause for discipline based on any civil service law to be served within 3 years after the cause for discipline, upon which the notice is based, first arose. That act provides that an adverse action based on fraud, embezzlement, or the falsification of records is valid if notice of the adverse action is served within 3 years after the discovery of the fraud, embezzlement, or falsification. This bill, except with respect to adverse action based on fraud, embezzlement, the falsification of records, or the unauthorized accessing or disclosure of confidential tax information, would require that the notice be served and any investigation completed within one year after the cause for discipline arose. Those excepted bases for adverse action would be valid if notice of the adverse action is served within 3 years after discovery.