State and local employees: pay warrants: designees.

Existing law authorizes a state employee to designate with their appointing power a person who may receive the employee's warrants upon the employee's death. Existing law requires an appointing power, upon sufficient proof of identity from an appropriate designee, to deliver warrants to the person claiming them. Existing law entitles the designated person who receives warrants to negotiate the warrants as if they were the payee. This bill would prescribe a process by which an appointing power would issue a check directly to a designated person instead of delivering employee warrants to that person, as described above. Upon sufficient proof of the designee's identity, the bill would require the appointing power to endorse and deposit the warrant issued to a deceased employee back into the Treasury to the credit of the fund or appropriation upon which it was drawn, as specified, and then issue a revolving fund check to the designated person in the original amount payable to employee. Existing law, applicable to a county, city, municipal corporation, district, or other public agency, authorizes employees of these entities to designate with their appointing powers a person who is entitled, on the death of the employee, to receive all warrants or checks that would have been payable to the decedent. This bill, for purposes of these provisions, would define "person" to include a corporation, a trust, or an estate.