Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify how public agencies will be reimbursed for costs associated with these new notice requirements.

Notice Requirements for Local Public Employee Organizations

This law requires public agencies to notify recognized employee organizations at least 45 days in advance before issuing requests for proposals, quotes, or renewing contracts that affect their job classifications.

What This Bill Does

• Requires public agencies to provide no less than 45 days' written notice to recognized employee organizations before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing an existing contract to perform services within the scope of work of represented job classifications.
• Specifies that notices must include details such as the anticipated duration of any new contract or agreement.
• Allows exceptions during emergencies where immediate action is necessary.

Who It Names or Affects

• Local public employee organizations
• Public agency governing bodies and designated boards or commissions

Terms To Know

Meyers-Milias-Brown Act

A California law that sets rules for collective bargaining between local government employers and employees.

Scope of representation

The specific job duties or conditions covered by a labor agreement or negotiation.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how public agencies will be reimbursed for the costs associated with these new notice requirements.
• Details about emergencies and exigent circumstances are left to interpretation, allowing some flexibility in enforcement.

Official Summary Text

AB 339, Ortega.
Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.
Existing law, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Existing law requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations.
Existing law requires the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body, to give reasonable written notice, except in cases of emergency, as specified, to each recognized employee organization affected of any ordinance, rule,
resolution, or regulation directly relating to matters within the scope of representation proposed to be adopted by the governing body or the designated boards and commissions.
This bill would require the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a public agency, to give the recognized employee organization no less than 45 days’ written notice before issuing a request for proposals, request for quotes, or renewing or extending an existing contract to perform services that are within the scope of work of the job classifications represented by the recognized employee organization, subject to certain exceptions. The bill would require the notice to include specified information, including the anticipated duration
of the contract. The bill would also require the public agency, if an emergency or other exigent circumstance prevents the public agency from providing the written notice described above, to provide as much advance notice as is practicable under the circumstances. By imposing new duties on local public agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This
bill would provide that no reimbursement shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions for costs mandated by the state pursuant to this act, but would recognize that a local agency or school district may pursue any available remedies to seek reimbursement for these costs.

Current Bill Text

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