Existing law provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. This bill would approve provisions of memoranda of understanding entered into between the state employer and California Correctional Peace Officer Association, State Bargaining Unit 6; California State Law Enforcement Association, State Bargaining Unit 7; Professional Engineers in California Government, State Bargaining Unit 9; International Union of Operating Engineers, State Bargaining Unit 12; Union of American Physicians and Dentists, State Bargaining Unit 16; California Association of Psychiatric Technicians, State Bargaining Unit 18; and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) , and State Bargaining Unit 19, that require the expenditure of funds, and would provide that these provisions will become effective even if these provisions are approved by the Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act. The bill would provide that provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved by this bill that require the expenditure of funds will not take effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and would require the state employer and the affected employee organization to meet and confer to renegotiate the affected provisions if funds for those provisions are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would appropriate funds for expenditure in the 2013–14 fiscal year in augmentation of, and for the purpose of, state employee compensation, as provided in the Budget Act of 2013, in accordance with a specified schedule, from the General Fund, unallocated special funds, and other unallocated nongovernmental cost funds. The bill would also appropriate to the Controller from the General Fund, unallocated special funds, including, but not limited to, federal funds and unallocated nongovernmental cost funds, and any other fund from which state employees are compensated, in the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees for work performed between July 1 and the enactment of the Budget Act in the 2014–15, 2015–16, and 2016–17 fiscal years if the Budget Act is not enacted on or before July 1 in those fiscal years. Existing law provides that the employer contribution for each employee in State Bargaining Units 16 and 19 shall be an amount equal to 85% of the weighted average of the basic health benefit plan premium for an active state civil service employee, as specified. This bill would instead provide that, beginning January 1, 2007, the employer contribution for each employee shall be an amount equal to 80% of the weighted average of the basic health benefit plan premium for an active state civil service employee enrolled for self alone, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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This measure would name the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for erecting appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would recognize the month of October 2013 as Filipino American History Month and the 426th anniversary of the first presence of Filipinos in the continental United States.
This measure would proclaim May 1 through May 7, 2013, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
This measure would urge Congress and the President to provide benefits, including applicable spousal benefits, to those veterans discriminated against solely on the basis of their sexual orientation.
(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to oversee administration of the state's telecommunications universal service programs, including the deaf and disabled programs, which are funded through the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires the commission to establish a surcharge, not to exceed 0.5%, that is uniformly applied to a subscriber's intrastate telephone service charges to allow providers of the equipment and service provided pursuant to the deaf and disabled programs to recover their costs. Existing law, until January 1, 2016, requires the commission to submit a report on the fiscal status of the programs to the Legislature on or before December 31 of each year. Existing law requires the report to include, among other things, an evaluation of options for controlling program expenses and program efficiency, as specified. This bill would extend imposition of the surcharge until January 1, 2020. The bill would extend the reporting requirements until January 1, 2021, and would require the commission to submit the report to the Legislature on or before March 1 of each year. This bill would also require the report to include an evaluation of any modification to the program that would maximize participation and funding opportunities under similar federal programs. As part of the report that is due no later than March 1, 2014, this bill would require the commission to evaluate options for controlling the program costs of providing speech-generating devices, and include any information on barriers to participation by eligible subscribers. (2) Existing law requires the commission to design and implement a program to provide access to a speech-generating telecommunications device to any subscriber who is certified as having a speech disability at no charge additional to the basic exchange rate. Existing law also requires the commission to expand the deaf and disabled program to include assistance to individuals with speech disabilities, including assistance in purchasing speech-generating devices, accessories, and mounting systems, and specialized telecommunications equipment. This bill would delete the first provision, described above, that requires the commission to expand the program to include assistance to individuals with speech disabilities, including assistance in purchasing speech-generating devices, accessories, and mounting systems, and specialized telecommunications equipment. (3) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that existing members of the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee should serve out their current terms of office as members of the committee, but not to exceed July 1, 2003. Existing law requires the committee to develop and submit, not later that October 1, 2002, recommendations to the commission for administration and governance of the deaf and disabled programs, as prescribed. The bill would repeal these provisions. (4) Under the Public Utilities Act, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission by a public utility is a crime. Because the bill would require an order or decision of the commission to extend the surcharge funding the deaf and disabled programs and because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the definition of a crime. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the United States to support immigration reform efforts that do not hurt families by eliminating or negatively impacting the F3 and F4 visa categories, or that end the discrimination against same-sex couples. The measure would memorialize the President and Congress to take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well-reasoned approach to immigration issues that maintains the fair and appropriate priority for family reunification, including same-sex partners.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to reauthorize the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and to include specified policies and strategies in support of the act.
This measure would urge the United States Congress and the President to establish new entrepreneur and science, technology, engineering, or mathematics-related visa categories for legal immigrants as part of comprehensive federal immigration reform, that would, among other things, create an Entrepreneur's Visa for legal immigrants, provide authorization to adjust the status of not more than 50,000 aliens who have earned a master's degree or a doctorate degree, as specified, to that of aliens conditionally admitted for permanent residence, and eliminate per-country caps for employment-based immigrant visas.
This measure would proclaim the week of August 11 through August 17, 2013, as National Health Center Week.