Bill Text: CA SB1106 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Agricultural labor relations: certified labor organizations: reports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-24 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1106 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1106-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1106	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

    An act to amend Section 9454 of the Civil Code, relating
to public works contracts.   An act to add Section
1159.1 to the Labor Code, relating to agricultural labor relations.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1106, as amended, Berryhill.  Public works contracts.
  Agricultural labor relations: certified labor
organizations: reports.  
   Existing law, the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural
Labor Relations Act of 1975, grants agricultural employees the right
to form and join labor organizations and engage in collective
bargaining with respect to wages, terms of employment, and other
employment conditions. The act provides for a secret ballot election
for employees in agricultural bargaining units, as defined, to select
labor organizations to represent them for collective bargaining
purposes. The act creates the Agricultural Labor Relations Board and
requires it, among other things, to certify the election of a labor
organization, as specified.  
   This bill would require a certified labor organization to submit
an annual report to the board listing the names of employers with
whom negotiations under the act are in progress but not yet
completed, including a description of the progress of negotiations
between the labor organization and the employer, as specified. 

   Existing law authorizes specified persons that have not been paid
in full to give a stop payment notice to the public entity or assert
a claim against a payment bond. Existing law provides that a person
that willfully gives a false stop payment notice to the public entity
or that willfully includes in the notice work not provided for the
public works contract for which the stop payment notice is given
forfeits all right to participate in the distribution of funds
withheld under the stop payment notice.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
latter provision. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 1159.1 is added to the 
 Labor Code   , to read:  
   1159.1.  In addition to any other reporting requirement under this
part or its implementing regulations, a certified labor organization
shall submit an annual report to the board listing the names of
employers with whom negotiations under this part are in progress but
not yet completed, including a description of the progress of
negotiations between the labor organization and the employer. The
report shall include the requests made by the union to bargain and
the dates of meetings between the labor organization and the
employer.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 9454 of the Civil Code is
amended to read:
   9454.   Any person that willfully gives a false stop payment
notice to the public entity, or that willfully includes in the notice
work not provided for the public works contract for which the stop
payment notice is given, forfeits all right to participate in the
distribution under Section 9450.