This section shall apply only to the California Maritime Academy.

(a) The duty to engage in meeting and conferring requires the parties to begin meeting and conferring at least 60 days prior to the expiration of memoranda of understanding, or May 1, if earlier, of any year in which a memorandum shall expire, or May 1, if there is no existing memorandum of understanding. The trustees shall maintain close liaison with the Department of Finance and the Legislature relative to the meeting and conferring on provisions of the written memoranda that have fiscal ramifications.

No written memoranda reached pursuant to this chapter that require budgetary or curative action by the Legislature or other funding agencies, including the Federal Maritime Administration, shall be effective unless and until that action has been taken. Following execution of written memoranda of understanding, an appropriate request for financing or budgetary funding for all state-funded employees or for necessary legislation will be forwarded promptly to the Legislature and the Governor or other funding agencies. When memoranda require legislative action pursuant to this section, if the Legislature or the Governor fails fully to fund the memoranda or to take the requisite curative action, the entire memoranda shall be referred back to the parties for further meeting and conferring; provided, however, that the parties may agree that provisions of the memoranda that are nonbudgetary and do not require funding shall take effect whether or not the funding requests submitted to the Legislature are approved.

The Legislature recognizes that the California Maritime Academy’s sources of funding are multiple, and approval by the Legislature, and by other public agencies, as to employees funded by those agencies, may be required prior to implementation of increased expenditures resulting from agreements reached in accordance with this chapter.

(b) The Legislature finds that federal funding in support of the California Maritime Academy is essential. The trustees may suspend or modify any provision of a memorandum of understanding that jeopardizes federal funding, but shall provide notice to exclusive representatives of any such suspension or modification and shall meet and confer with the exclusive representative, if requested to do so, to explain the need for, and the effects of, the suspension or modification.

(c) Any memorandum of understanding that is in effect at the time that the employer-employee relations of the California Maritime Academy is transferred from the Ralph C. Dills Act (Chapter 10.3 (commencing with Section 3512) of Division 4 of Title 1), to the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1), shall remain in effect until the end of the term of the memorandum of understanding, upon extension of the contracts in existence on June 30, 1995, or until superseded by a new memorandum of understanding.

(d) If agreement is reached to extend existing memoranda of understanding covering California Maritime Academy employees beyond the current June 30, 1995, expiration date, then any decisions, agreements, or settlements made by the California State University in the administration of the memoranda of understanding relative to employees of the California Maritime Academy shall not be binding upon, or considered as precedent required to be followed by, the Department of Human Resources.

(e) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1995.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 40. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.)