20250SB__052195CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-19 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-03-26 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-04-24 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-07-14 PASSED_SENATE 2025-05-08 ENROLLED 2025-07-16 CHAPTERED 2025-07-30 APPROVED 2025-07-30 FILED 2025-07-30 2025 SB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Senator Gonzalez (Coauthor: Senator Arreguí

n) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Gonzalez COAUTHOR SENATE Arreguín

An act to amend

Section 1021.5 of, and to add

Section 1021.6 to, the Government Code, relating to public employment. public employment Public employment: disqualification. Existing law disqualifies a public employee, as defined, from any public employment for years if the employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, a bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties. This bill would expand that provision to include any felony involving a conflict of interest.

The bill would also disqualify a city manager or city attorney, as defined, including an individual acting under contract with the city for those services, who is convicted of any of the above-described felonies, from any future public employment in an equivalent role. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 1021.5 of the Government Code is amended to read: 1021.5. (

a) If a public employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, conflict of interest, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of their official duties as a public employee, the public employee shall be disqualified for five years from any public employment, including, but not limited to, employment with a city, county, district, or any other public agency of the state. (

b) The five-year disqualification period described in subdivision (

a) shall begin on the later of either of the following:

(1) The date of final conviction.

(2) The date on which the public employee is released from any incarceration. (

c) For purposes of this section, “public employee” means any person employed at will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013.

SEC.

Section 1021.6 is added to the Government Code , to read: 1021.6. (

a) A city manager or city attorney, including an individual acting under contract with the city for those services, who is convicted of any felony set forth in

Section 1021.5, shall be disqualified from any future public employment in an equivalent role. (

b) For purposes of this section, the following

definitions apply: (1) “City attorney” means any person employed pursuant to

Section on or after January 1, 2026. (2) “City manager” means any person employed pursuant to

Section on or after January 1, 2026.

SEC. 3. The Legislature finds and declares that the integrity of public employees is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair as that term is used in

Section of

Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore, Sections and of this act, which amend

Section 1021.5 of, and add

Section 1021.6 to, the Government Code apply to all cities, including charter cities.