CA SB 803

Title: Personal services contracts.
Author: Josh Becker

Summary
SB 803, as amended, Becker. Personal services contracts. Existing law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authority necessary to operate the state civil service system. Existing law permits state agencies to enter into personal services contracts if certain conditions are met. Existing law requires a state agency that enters into a personal services contract for certain types of workers to include provisions for employee wages and benefits to be valued at least 85% of the state employer cost of wages and benefits provided to state employees performing similar duties. Existing law requires the department to annually establish the state employer wage and benefits costs covered by these provisions. Existing law additionally requires that those benefit costs be established using rates based on single employee, employee plus one dependent, and employee plus 2 or more dependents, or based on a blended rate, subject to the determination of the department.This bill would instead require those benefit costs to be established using rates based on single employee, employee plus one dependent, and employee plus 2 or more dependents, and on a blended rate, subject to the determination of the department. The bill would also require that the department use at least 85% of the top rate of pay for the corresponding civil service classification for state employees performing similar duties to establish wage costs.Existing law additionally applies the above-described provisions to wages and benefits of employees of subcontractors providing the same types of services in state-leased facilities where the facility is at least 50,000 square feet in area and the state leases all of the occupied floorspace of the facility.This bill would instead apply these provisions to services performed in state-leased facilities that are at least 50,000 square feet in area and more than one-half of the occupied office space is leased by the state, as specified.This bill would make its provisions applicable upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act of 2024, and also make nonsubstantive changes to correct erroneous cross-references in those provisions.

Status
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.

Bill Documents
CA SB 803 - 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly
09/01/23 - CA SB 803 (09/01/23 - Amended Assembly)