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          Date of Hearing:   April 27, 2005

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                   Judy Chu, Chair

                AB 1206 (Jerome Horton) - As Amended:  April 18, 2005 

          Policy Committee:                              PERSSVote:4-2

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires state and local government agencies to  
          administer an employee time bank for peace officers.   
          Specifically, this bill: 

          1)Requires state and local government agencies, upon the request  
            of a recognized employee organization representing peace  
            officers, to administer an employee time bank for use by  
            members of the employee organization for the purposes of  
            carrying out the business of that employee organization. 

          2)Authorizes members of a recognized employee organization to  
            contribute sick leave time, vacation time, annual leave time,  
            or other hourly time to the employee time bank for use by  
            employee organization members for employee organization  
            business. 

          3)Provides that the employee time bank shall be in addition to  
            the release time without loss of compensation granted to  
            employee representatives when formally meeting and conferring  
            with the public agency on matters within the scope of  
            representation.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          The bill provides that costs associated with the administration  
          of the employee time bank are to be borne by the employee  
          organization.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Background  .  The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act and the Ralph C.  








                                                                  AB 1206
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            Dills Act, which governs 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.

           2)Purpose  .  According to the sponsor, Peace Officers Research  
            Association of California, the time banks established pursuant  
            to this bill will allow peace officers to receive compensation  
            for duties performed while acting as a representative or  
            officer of a public employee organization that presently are  
            not eligible for compensation, such as legislative business.

           3)DPA Concerns  .  The Department of Personnel Administration has  
            expressed the concern that the substance of this bill should  
            be subject to collective bargaining, notwithstanding the  
            requirement for employee organizations to bear the costs of  
            establishing time banks.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Stephen Shea / APPR. / (916) 319-2081