BILL NUMBER: AB 1293	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 3512 of the Government Code, relating to
state public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1293, as introduced, Holden. State public employment: labor
negotiations.
   Existing law, the Ralph C. Dills Act, grants to state employees
the right to form employee organizations for the purpose of
representing their members in negotiating conditions of employment
with the state. Existing law provides a statement of legislative
purpose in connection with these and other provisions.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in this statement of
purpose.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 3512 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   3512.   (a)    It is the purpose of this
 chapter to   chapter: 
    (1)    To  promote full communication
between the state and its employees by providing a reasonable method
of resolving disputes regarding wages, hours, and other terms and
conditions of employment between the state and public employee
organizations.  It is also the purpose of this chapter to

    (2)     To  promote the improvement of
personnel management and employer-employee relations within the
State of California by providing a uniform basis for recognizing the
right of state employees to join organizations of their own choosing
and be represented by those organizations in their employment
relations with the state.  It is further the purpose of this
chapter, in 
    (3)     In  order to foster peaceful
employer-employee relations, to allow state employees to select one
employee organization as the exclusive representative of the
employees in an appropriate unit, and to permit the exclusive
representative to receive financial support from those employees who
receive the benefits of this representation. 
   Nothing in this 
    (b)     This  chapter shall  not
 be construed to contravene the spirit or intent of the merit
principle in state employment, nor to limit the entitlements of state
civil service employees, including those designated as managerial
and confidential, provided by Article VII of the California
Constitution or by laws or rules enacted pursuant thereto.