California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 879 — State employees: memoranda of understanding.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 690, Statutes of 2014.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 09, 2014. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 5 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

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 State Bargaining Unit 2, the California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment, on August 14, 2014, State Bargaining Unit 10, the California Association of Professional Scientists, on August 12, 2014, and State Bargaining Unit 13, the International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers, on August 21, 2014, 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 prohibit provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved by this bill that authorize the expenditure of funds from taking effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and would authorize the state employer and the affected employee organization to reopen negotiations on all or part of the memorandum of understanding if those provisions are not approved or fully funded by the Legislature. The bill would appropriate funds for expenditure in the 2014–15 fiscal year in augmentation of, and for the purpose of, state employee compensation, as provided in the Budget Act of 2014, 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 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 requires the Department of Human Resources to provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee any side letter, appendix, or other addendum to a properly ratified memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of $250,000 or more related to salary and benefits and that is not already contained in the original memorandum of understanding or the Budget Act. Existing law requires the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, within 30 days after receiving the side letter, appendix, or other addendum, to determine if the addendum presents substantial additions that are not reasonably within the parameters of the original memorandum of understanding and thereby requires legislative action to ratify the addendum. This bill would approve the addenda to memoranda of understanding entered into by the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 8, the California Department of Forestry Firefighters on August 26, 2014. The bill would also appropriate $10,236,000 from the General Fund and other unallocated special and nongovernmental cost funds for those purposes. The bill would prohibit provisions of the addenda to the memorandum of understanding approved by this bill that authorize the expenditure of funds from taking effect unless funds for those provisions already exist within other available appropriations or 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 these purposes are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 690, Statutes of 2014.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4999.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. Senate Rule 29.4 suspended. (Ayes 22. Noes 11. Page 4999.)

  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 6713.) Ordered to the Senate.

  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  9. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 9.) (August 28).

  10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  11. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  12. Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 6380.)

  13. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

  14. Ordered to third reading.

  15. Read third time and amended. (Page 6341.)

  16. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  17. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 10.) (August 14).

  18. Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 5975.)

  19. Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  20. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  21. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 3137.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  22. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  23. Ordered to second reading.

  24. Withdrawn from committee.

  25. Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

  26. From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9.

  27. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 6 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Supp 3 SB879 Committee on B. & F.R. (Leno) Concurrence

Passed 35 Yea · 0 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 33004
Democratic 2001
Total 35005
% of votes cast 88%0%0%13%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Block — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huff — Yea
Knight — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wright — Not Voting
Galgiani — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Beall — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Torres — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Wyland — Yea
De León — Not Voting
Hancock — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Lara — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Correa — Yea
Evans — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Yee — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Not Voting
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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SB 879 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By SKINNER

Passed 60 Yea · 12 Nay · 7 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 56907
Democratic 4000
Republican 0300
Total 601207
% of votes cast 76%15%0%9%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bigelow — Not Voting
Bloom — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Holden — Yea
Linder — Not Voting
Logue — Nay
Maienschein — Not Voting
Mansoor — Nay
Medina — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Perea — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Wilk — Not Voting
Lowenthal — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Fong — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Daly — Yea
Hall — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Bocanegra — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Campos — Yea
Levine — Yea
Allen — Nay
Melendez — Not Voting
Mullin — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Conway — Nay
Cooley — Yea
Donnelly — Nay
Eggman — Yea
Pan — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Waldron — Not Voting
Weber — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Fox — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Jim Patterson — Not Voting
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Do pass.

Passed 16 Yea · 9 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15802
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 16902
% of votes cast 59%33%0%7%
How each member voted (27)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Mansoor — Nay
Mullin — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Weber — Yea
Campos — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Nazarian — Yea
Daly — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Ting — Yea
Allen — Nay
Gorell — Nay
Harkey — Nay
Logue — Not Voting
Melendez — Not Voting
Nestande — Nay
Dickinson — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Mark Stone — Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay

Official roll call →

Do pass.

Passed 14 Yea · 10 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 13903
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 141003
% of votes cast 52%37%0%11%
How each member voted (27)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Logue — Not Voting
Mansoor — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Weber — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Campos — Yea
Gorell — Nay
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Allen — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Mullin — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Dababneh — Not Voting
Daly — Yea
Nestande — Nay
Rodriguez — Yea
Ting — Yea
Gordon — Not Voting
Jim Patterson — Nay
Mark Stone — Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay

Official roll call →

3rd Reading SB879 Committee on B. & F.R.

Passed 22 Yea · 12 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 201205
Democratic 2001
Total 221206
% of votes cast 55%30%0%15%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Not Voting
Steinberg — Yea
Wolk — Not Voting
Wyland — Nay
Evans — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Beall — Yea
Correa — Yea
Torres — Yea
Wright — Not Voting
Fuller — Nay
Galgiani — Not Voting
Cannella — Nay
Hueso — Yea
Huff — Nay
Knight — Nay
Corbett — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Nay
Walters — Nay
Yee — Not Voting
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 879 do?
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 State Bargaining Unit 2, the California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges, and Hearing Officers in State Employment, on August 14, 2014, State Bargaining Unit 10, the California Association of Professional Scientists, on August 12, 2014, and State Bargaining Unit 13, the International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers, on August 21, 2014, 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 prohibit provisions of the memorandum of understanding approved by this bill that authorize the expenditure of funds from taking effect unless funds for those provisions are specifically appropriated by the Legislature, and would authorize the state employer and the affected employee organization to reopen negotiations on all or part of the memorandum of understanding if those provisions are not approved or fully funded by the Legislature. The bill would appropriate funds for expenditure in the 2014–15 fiscal year in augmentation of, and for the purpose of, state employee compensation, as provided in the Budget Act of 2014, 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 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 requires the Department of Human Resources to provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee any side letter, appendix, or other addendum to a properly ratified memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of $250,000 or more related to salary and benefits and that is not already contained in the original memorandum of understanding or the Budget Act. Existing law requires the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, within 30 days after receiving the side letter, appendix, or other addendum, to determine if the addendum presents substantial additions that are not reasonably within the parameters of the original memorandum of understanding and thereby requires legislative action to ratify the addendum. This bill would approve the addenda to memoranda of understanding entered into by the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 8, the California Department of Forestry Firefighters on August 26, 2014. The bill would also appropriate $10,236,000 from the General Fund and other unallocated special and nongovernmental cost funds for those purposes. The bill would prohibit provisions of the addenda to the memorandum of understanding approved by this bill that authorize the expenditure of funds from taking effect unless funds for those provisions already exist within other available appropriations or 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 these purposes are not specifically appropriated by the Legislature. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Who sponsors SB 879?
SB 879 is sponsored by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.
What is the current status of SB 879?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 09, 2014. Enacted.
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