AB-1510 • 2026

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority: employee relations.

Labor

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Committee on Public Employment and Retirement (A) - (Assembly Members McKinnor (Chair), Boerner, Elhawary, Garcia, and Nguyen)
Last action: 2025-10-07
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 454, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material did not provide details on how the new procedures will impact regular operations or their effectiveness in resolving disputes quickly and fairly.

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Employee Relations

AB-1510 allows employees, managers, and intervenors who disagree with PERB's final decision in unfair practice cases to seek special court help.

What This Bill Does

Allows charging parties, respondents, or intervenors aggrieved by a final decision or order of PERB in an unfair practice case to petition for a writ of extraordinary relief from that decision or order.

Who It Names or Affects

Employees and managers at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)

Terms To Know

Public Employment Relations Board (PERB): A government agency that helps solve problems between public employers and employees.
Unfair practice case: A situation where someone thinks an employer has broken rules about fair treatment of workers.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how the new procedures will affect regular operations at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
It is unclear if this change will lead to more or fewer disputes being resolved quickly and fairly.

Bill History

2025-10-07 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 454, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-07 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 2808.).
2025-08-26 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-08-25 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2252.).
2025-08-20 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-08-19 California Legislative Information
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-07-09 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-25 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-06-13 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-05-28 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
2025-05-21 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
2025-05-13 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-12 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 1520.)
2025-05-08 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-07 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7).
2025-04-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-17 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
2025-03-05 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
2025-03-04 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1510, Committee on Public Employment and Retirement.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority: employee relations.
Existing law, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Act, establishes the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services and the operation of public transit in the County of Santa Clara.
Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of specified public employers and employees under various acts regulating collective bargaining, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act. Existing law vests PERB with jurisdiction to enforce certain provisions related to the authority’s
employees, over charges of unfair practices for represented authority employees, subject to a selection by an exclusive representative. Existing law, in the case of such a selection, gives PERB jurisdiction over the initial determination as to whether those charges are justified and, if so, the appropriate remedy, subject to certain restrictions.
This bill would authorize any charging party, respondent, or intervenor aggrieved by a final decision or order of PERB in an unfair practice case, except a decision of PERB not to issue a complaint in such a case, to petition for a writ of extraordinary relief from that decision or order, as specified. The bill, if the time to petition for extraordinary relief from a PERB decision or order has expired, would authorize PERB to seek enforcement of any final decision or order in a district court of appeal or superior court having jurisdiction over the county where the events giving rise to the decision or order occurred, as
specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the authority.

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