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9, /3 <br />LOW slative Action <br />now <br />Firefighters. SB 440 passed the Assembly floor <br />on a 55 -11 vote on July 21. The bill attempts to <br />circumvent the California Supreme Court decision <br />in County of Riverside v. Superior Court that <br />overturned binding interest arbitration procedures <br />established by SB 402 (Burton, Chapter 906, <br />Statutes of 2000). SB 402 provided that if a <br />collective bargaining impasse regarding economic <br />issues has been declared between a local gov- <br />ernment and representatives of specified public <br />safety employees, and if other available adminis- <br />trative remedies have been exhausted, the em- <br />ployee organization may request submission of <br />the differences to binding interest arbitration. That <br />law also provided that the decision of the arbitrator <br />on economic issues was binding on the parties. <br />SB 440 attempts to defeat the decision of the <br />Supreme Court in County of Riverside v. Superior <br />Court by the dubious provision that the decision of <br />the arbitrator may be overturned by a unanimous <br />decision of the board of supervisors or city coun- <br />cil. This option is nearly impossible to achieve <br />and there is a question whether it will survive <br />subsequent constitutional challenges on the same <br />basis that SB 402 was found unconstitutional. <br />Staff: Amy Brown, Status: SenFlr, Position: <br />Oppose. <br />SEND A LETTER IN SUPPORT OF A <br />LEAGUE POSITION! HERE'S WHO <br />TO CONTACT: <br />ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COM- <br />MITTEE (AsApps): Steinberg (D)(Chair), <br />Bates (R)(Vice Chair), Berg (D), Calderon (D), <br />Corbett (D), Correa (D), Daucher (R), Diaz <br />(D), Firebaugh (D), Goldberg (D), Haynes (R), <br />Leno (D), Maldonado (R), Negrete McLeod <br />(D), Nation (D), Nunez (D), Pacheco (R), <br />Pavley (D), Ridley- Thomas (D), Runner (R), <br />Samuelian (R), Simitian (D), Wiggins (D), and <br />Yee (D). Phone: 916/319 -2081. <br />SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMIT- <br />TEE (SenApps): Alpert (D)(Chair), Baffin <br />(R)(Vice Chair), Aanestad (R), Ashburn (R), <br />Bowen (D), Burton (D), Escutia (D), Johnson <br />(R), Kamette (D), Machado (D), Murray (D), <br />Poochigian (R), and Speier (D). PH: 445 -3284. <br />For legislators' phone numbers, ad- <br />dresses and e-mail please see the <br />League's webeite Www.cacities.ora/ <br />advocacvicenterl <br />Visit the League's Official Web Site-- www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS /PAGE 13 <br />