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Home/Bills/AB 139California · 2025–2026 Regular Session
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AB 139: State Bargaining Unit 9 and State Bargaining Unit 12.

California · Assembly · 2025–2026 Regular Session · last verified December 7, 2025

What AB 139 does, verified December 7, 2025

This bill amends state employment laws to address memoranda of understanding between the state employer and employee organizations. It approves provisions of the agreements that require expenditure of funds, but only if specifically appropriated by the legislature. The bill also adjusts continuous appropriations for state employees covered by memoranda of understanding and establishes new memoranda of understanding for state bargaining units 9 and 12. The bill changes the workweek and workday policies for state employees and requires them to participate in a new leave program, the Personal Leave Program 2025. It also suspends the employer's monthly contribution for prefunding other postemployment benefits for two years and introduces a new contribution requirement for employees. Additionally, the bill provides for the reduction of certain budget appropriations and ratifies memoranda of…

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First Chamber FloorComplete
4Second ChamberCurrent
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R. (2025-07-02)Alert me
Recent actions16 total · showing 5
Jul. 02, 2025Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
Jun. 30, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Jun. 30, 2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 30).
Jun. 25, 2025From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
Jun. 25, 2025In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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