BILL NUMBER: AB 1206	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 13, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jerome Horton
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bermudez)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to add Section 1227 to the Government Code, relating to
public employment relations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1206, as amended, Jerome Horton.  Public employment relations:
peace officers.
   The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act and the Ralph C. Dills Act, which
 governs   govern  public agency
employer-employee relations and state employer-employee relations,
respectively, permit a public agency employee representative of a
recognized employee organization and a state employee representative
of a recognized employee organization reasonable time off without
loss of compensation or other benefits when formally meeting and
conferring with representatives of the public employer on matters
within the scope of representation.
   This bill would, upon the request of a  locally 
recognized employee  organization   bargaining
unit  representing peace officers  exclusively  ,
require the employer to administer an employee time bank, as
described, to be used by members of the employee organization for the
purposes of carrying out the business of that employee organization.
The bill would provide that members of a recognized employee
organization  representing peace officers exclusively  may
contribute  sick leave time,  vacation time,
 annual   compensatory  leave time, or
other hourly time  agreed to by the employer and the employee
bargaining unit  to the employee time bank account for use by
employee  organization   bargaining unit 
members for employee  organization   bargaining
unit  business. The bill would specify that all costs associated
with the administration of the employee time bank, are to be borne
by the employee organization.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1227 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   1227.
   (a) Upon the request of a  locally  recognized employee
 organization   bargaining unit 
representing peace officers  exclusively  , the employer
shall administer an employee time bank to be used by members of the
employee organization for the purposes of carrying out the business
of that employee organization.
   (b) Employer and employee policies and procedures regarding
employee leave, shall not be affected by this section.
   (c) All costs associated with the administration of the employee
time bank, shall be borne by the employee organization.
   (d) As used in this section, an employee time bank is an account
administered by an employer wherein members of a recognized employee
organization  representing peace officers exclusively  may
contribute  sick leave time, vacation time, annual leave
time, or other hourly time to   vacation time,
compensatory leave time, or other hourly time agreed to by the
employer and the employee bargaining unit to  the account for
use by employee  organization   bargaining unit
 members for employee  organization  
bargaining unit  business.   
   (e) The employee time bank shall be in addition to the release
time without loss of compensation granted to representatives of an
exclusive representative by Section 3505.3 or 3518.5, as appropriate.