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 02/18/26 - Introduced

 AB-2151 Civil service: disciplinary proceedings: causes for discipline: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee training or diversion program.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/06/2026 02:00 PM

AB2151:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 06, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2151

Introduced by Assembly Member Pacheco

February 18, 2026

 An act to amend Section 19572 of of, and to add Section 19572.1 to, the Government Code, relating to state employment. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2151, as amended, Pacheco.
 Civil service: disciplinary proceedings: causes for discipline. discipline: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee training or diversion program.

Existing law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authority necessary to operate the state civil service system. Existing law, except as specified, authorizes adverse action to be taken against any employee, or person whose name appears on any employment list, for specified causes of discipline.

This bill, except as specified, would prohibit an employee from being disciplined for cause unless the conduct constituting cause is reasonably related to the employee’s fitness, qualifications, or ability to perform the duties of the position. The bill would prohibit its provisions from being construed to limit any procedural or substantive protections otherwise provided by statute, regulation, or memorandum of understanding. 

This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop and implement, no later than January 1, 2030, an employee training or diversion program as an available alternative to monetary disciplinary penalties for any correctional peace officer employed by a department, division, board, or commission under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The bill would require the appointing authority to consider whether an employee is eligible for participation in the program before imposing a monetary disciplinary penalty on the employee for any act or omission giving rise to a cause for discipline. The bill would authorize the appointing authority to impose more serious penalties if the nature and frequency of the conduct of the correctional peace officer constitutes serious and grave misconduct and the appointing authority states in writing the specific facts supporting that determination and documents why participation
 in the training or diversion program would be inappropriate. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, beginning on January 1, 2031, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature that includes specified information about the program.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has recently conducted an unprecedented number of investigations involving allegations of alleged employee misconduct.

(b) Many of these investigations have resulted in CDCR employees receiving discipline that involved monetary penalties.

(c) The inordinate number of monetary discipline penalties served on CDCR employees has resulted in a loss of morale among employees, especially in cases in which deficient policies and procedures may have played a role in the poor outcome giving rise to employee discipline.

(d) Developing a system to appropriately train employees should lead to better employment outcomes for the CDCR.

(e) A disciplinary system that emphasizes corrective training and early intervention can improve employee performance, reduce repeated misconduct, and decrease costs associated with formal disciplinary proceedings, curtail employment turnover, and help with recruitment and retention of personnel within the Depa