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SENATE BILL 1419 (ALARCON – 2002)
CHAPTER 894, STATUTES OF 2002, SB 1419
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As enacted Senate Bill 1419 added sections 45103.1 and 88003.1 to the Education Code. (See Exhibit #1h) Senate Bill 1419 was introduced on February 14, 2002 by Senator Richard Alarcon. (See Exhibit #1a) Senator Alarcon served as chair of the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, which was the first legislative committee to review this bill. (See Exhibit #4, document SP1-1) The California School Employees Association was the sponsor of the bill. (See Exhibit #3, page 3)
Senate Bill 1419 was assigned to the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, the Senate Committee on Education and the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment where policy issues raised by the bill were considered. (See Exhibits #3, #5 and #9) The fiscal ramifications of the bill were considered by the Senate and the Assembly Committees on Appropriations. (See Exhibits #7 and #11)
Six amendments were made to Senate Bill 1419 as the bill was considered by the Legislature. (See Exhibits #1b through #1g and #2) Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 1419 on September 25, 2000 and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on September 26, 2002 as Chapter 894 of the Statutes of 2002. (See Exhibits #1h and #2)
Senate Bill 1419 contained an uncodified section 1 that set forth the Legislature’s intent in enacting the bill. (See Exhibit #1h)
The Unfinished Business analysis of Senate Bill 1419 as it was last amended by the Office of Senate Floor Analyses described this measure as “establish[ing] standards for the use of personal service contracts in California school districts and community college districts.” (See Exhibit #13, page 2) The two main components of the bill identified by this analysis were that the bill: 1) restricts personal services contract for the purpose of achieving cost savings, permitting so only under specific conditions; and 2) restricts personal services contracting, unless specific conditions are met. (Id., at pages 2 and 3)
Background on this measure was provided in the Senate Committee on Education analysis of the bill as amended May 6, 2002, which stated:
Current law does not specifically restrict the use of personal service contracts by governing boards of California school and community college districts.
For state services, current law provides standards for the use of personal service contracts with specific criteria for contracting outside state service. These criteria include demonstration of cost savings, definition of costs, and requirements that work not be contracted out solely on the basis of lower pay rates or benefits, and justification of savings based on the size and duration of the contract.
(See Exhibit #5c, page 1)