(a) For purposes of this chapter, any expense, including legal and consulting fees and salaries of supervisors and employees, incurred for research for, or preparation, planning, or coordination of, or carrying out, an activity to assist, promote, or deter union organizing shall be treated as paid or incurred for that activity.
(b) For purposes of accounting for expenditures, if state funds and other funds are commingled, any expenditures to assist, promote, or deter union organizing shall be allocated between state funds and other funds on a pro rata basis.
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 872, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2001.)