California Assembly Bill AB837 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 837AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2015 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Roger Hernndez FEBRUARY 26, 2015 An act to add  Section   Sections  92611.3  of   and 92611.4 to  the Education Code, relating to the University of California. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 837, as amended, Roger Hernndez. University of California: employee  salaries.   salaries and other information.  Under existing law, the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, is one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Under existing law, the regents have all the powers necessary or convenient for the administration of the university, including the power to employ officers and employees of the university, but are subject to such legislative control as may be necessary to ensure the security of university funds. This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to salaries paid to some officers and employees of the University of California.  The   As a condition of the receipt of   state funding in the annual Budget Act, the  bill would prohibit the University of California  , as a condition of the receipt of state funding in the annual Budget Act,  from paying any of its employees or officers a salary that exceeds $500,000 in any fiscal year  , and would require the University of California to publish specified information regarding its employees  . Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (a) The California Constitution states that the University of California is subject to such legislative control as may be necessary to ensure the security of its funds. (b) There is substantial public concern about the high salaries paid, out of taxpayer dollars, to some University of California officers and employees. SEC. 2. Section 92611.3 is added to the Education Code, to read: 92611.3. As a condition of the receipt of state funding in the annual Budget Act, the University of California shall not pay any of its employees or officers a salary that exceeds five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in any fiscal year.  SEC. 3.   Section 92611.4 is added to the   Education Code   , to read:   92611.4. As a condition of the receipt of state funding in the annual Budget Act, the University of California shall comply with all of the following: (a) Publish, commencing on or before February 1, 2016, and by every February 1 thereafter, the following information regarding each University of California employee for the prior calendar year ending December 31: (1) Calendar year. (2) Location of employment. (3) Original date of hire. (4) First and last name. (5) Title of employment. (6) Regular pay, overtime pay, gross pay, and other pay. (7) Cost of employer-paid defined benefit plan contributions. (8) Cost of employer-paid contributions to deferred compensation other than defined benefit plan contributions. (9) Cost of employer-paid contributions toward medical, health, or welfare benefits, or any combination of benefits thereof. (10) Total annual cost of employer-paid contributions toward deferred compensation and medical, health, or welfare benefits. (11) All sources of funding for compensation costs in dollar amounts by funding source. (12) Personnel program. (13) The three-character Occupational Subgroup Category Code if the employee is nonacademic staff, or the three-character Class Title Outline Code if the employee is academic staff. (b) Publish, for April and October of each year, statistical summary information that includes the total headcount and the total full-time equivalent count of University of California employees at each campus. These statistical summaries shall include a breakdown showing the number of employees in each single-character and three-character Occupational Subgroup Category Code for nonacademic staff within each personnel group, and the number of employees in each single-character and three-character Class Title Outline Code for academic staff within each personnel group. (c) Publish all of the information required by this section on a publically accessible Internet Web site and the information shall be downloadable from that Internet Web site in either a comma delimited or Microsoft Excel format.