Whenever any employee, department, or other person, actively interested in a matter before the board and in connection with which it is holding a hearing, requests that the board make findings, then the board shall make findings if the request is made at any time prior to the time the board takes the matter under submission.
(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 427, Sec. 24. (AB 1062) Effective January 1, 2014.)