Richard Gordon
- Democratic
Author
(1) Existing law prohibits a local public entity, as defined, from filing a petition and exercising powers pursuant to applicable federal bankruptcy law unless the local public entity has participated in a specified neutral evaluation process with interested parties, or the local public entity has declared a fiscal emergency and has adopted a resolution by a majority vote of the governing board at a noticed public hearing that includes findings that the financial state of the local public entity jeopardizes the health, safety, or well-being of the residents of the local public entity's jurisdiction or service area absent the protections of federal bankruptcy law. Existing law defines "interested party," for purposes of these provisions, to include, among others, a representative selected by an association of retired employees of the local public entity who receive income from the local public entity, as specified. Existing law exempts from public disclosure certain personal information of retirees from public employment. This bill would require, notwithstanding any other law and under certain conditions, a local public entity to provide the name and mailing address of each retired employee or his or her beneficiary receiving the retired employee's retirement benefit, in list form, to any organization that is incorporated and qualified under specific state and federal laws for the purpose of representing retired employees or their beneficiaries as members of the organization in a neutral evaluation process, the declaration of a fiscal emergency and adoption of a resolution, or a bankruptcy proceeding, as specified. By imposing these duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would limit an organization receiving this information under these provisions to using the information for only these purposes and impose a civil penalty of $25,000 on the organization for a violation of that limitation. (2) The California Constitution requires local agencies, for the purpose of ensuring public access to the meetings of public bodies and the writings of public officials and agencies, to comply with a statutory enactment that amends or enacts laws relating to public records or open meetings and contains findings demonstrating that the enactment furthers the constitutional requirements relating to this purpose. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (3) 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 is required by this act for a specified reason.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 252, Statutes of 2016.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 11. Page 5876.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 4960.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 8).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 3502.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (January 21).
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 21).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and P. & C.P.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB241 | HTML |
| 02/05/15 - Introduced | |
| 04/29/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/01/16 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/09/16 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/21/16 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/19/16 - Enrolled | |
| 09/09/16 - Chaptered |
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