The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost. If the parties reach an impasse, the act provides that a public agency may unilaterally implement its last, best, and final offer. Existing law further authorizes the employee organization, if the mediator is unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 30 days of his or her appointment, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel. This bill would instead authorize the employee organization to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days or more than 45 days following the appointment or selection of a mediator pursuant to the parties' agreement to mediate or a mediation process required by a public agency's local rules. The bill would also authorize an employee organization, if the dispute was not submitted to mediation, to request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not later than 30 days following the date that either party provided the other with a written notice of a declaration of impasse. The bill would specify that the procedural right of an employee organization to request a factfinding panel cannot be expressly or voluntarily waived. The bill would also specify that its provisions are intended to be technical and clarifying of existing law.
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(1) The Administrative Procedure Act generally sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The act specifically provides that a regulation or order of repeal required to be filed with the Secretary of State shall become effective on the 30th day after the date of filing, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would instead provide that a regulation or order of repeal is effective on January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1, as specified, subject to certain exceptions, including, but not limited to, specified regulations adopted by the Fish and Game Commission. (2) The act requires the Office of Administrative Law to make a free copy of the full text of the California Code of Regulations available on its Internet Web site. This bill would also require the office to provide on its Internet Web site a list of, and a link to the full text of, each regulation filed with the Secretary of State that is pending effectiveness, as specified. (3) Existing law requires that every state agency subject to the act that maintains an Internet Web site or similar forum for the electronic publication or distribution of written material publish on that Internet Web site or other forum specified information regarding a proposed regulation or regulatory repeal or amendment. This bill would also require a state agency to post on its Internet Web site each regulation that is filed with the Secretary of State, as specified, and to send to the office the Internet Web site link of the regulation. The bill would not apply to a state agency that does not maintain an Internet Web site. This bill would also make a conforming change. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 116064 of the Health and Safety Code, proposed by AB 2114, to be operative only if AB 2114 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law prohibits the Department of Transportation, until January 1, 2014, from withholding retention proceeds when making progress payments for work performed by a contractor. This bill would make these provisions operative until January 1, 2020. The bill would also make a statement of legislative findings. The State Contract Act, generally requires bids to be presented under sealed cover and accompanied by bidder's security in the form of cash, a cashier's check, a certified check, or a bidder's bond, as provided. This bill would allow as acceptable forms of bidder's security, an electronic bidder's bond by an admitted surety insurer, a signed bidder's bond by an admitted surety insurer, and cash, a cashier's check, or certified check, as provided.
This measure would declare December 12, 2012, as California Bullying Prevention Day, and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of bullying prevention in California.
This measure would request the President and the Congress of the United States to enact the Social Security Fairness Act of 2011, which would repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.
The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act provides for the creation and regulation of common interest developments. Under existing law, a common interest development is managed by an association pursuant to the provisions of the governing documents of the development. Existing law also imposes various requirements that must be satisfied prior to exercising a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the transfer, following the sale, of a property in a common interest development, as defined, executed under a power of sale contained in any deed of trust or mortgage to be recorded within 30 days, as specified. Existing law requires a trustee or mortgagee to record a notice of default and to post and publish a notice of sale prior to selling real property at a foreclosure sale. Existing law allows an association, with respect to separate interests governed by the association, to record a single request that a mortgagee, trustee, or other person authorized to record a notice of default regarding any of those separate interests mail to the association a copy of any trustee's deed upon sale concerning a separate interest, as specified. Existing law requires that the information requested by the association be mailed within 15 business days following the date the trustee's deed is recorded. This bill would instead require that the requested information described above be mailed to the association within 15 business days following the date of the trustee's sale.
This measure would urge the United States Postal Service to end its plan to reduce the frequency of mail delivery from 6 days to 5 days a week, and to take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of this 6-day mail delivery service.
This measure would proclaim August 15, 2012, as India's Independence Day, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would declare the week of May 20, 2012, through May 26, 2012, as California Mental Health No Stigma Week.
This measure would declare that an applicant's immigration status should not be the determining factor in deciding whether to approve a license to practice law, would commend Sergio C. Garcia for his hard work and success, and would also commend the State Bar of California for its efforts to admit Sergio C. Garcia to the State Bar of California.