Spring cleaning, anyone?

California nurses are delivering a sanitizing gift to officials from a trade group that represents lobbyists today.

The nurses plan to drop off a container of disinfectant cleaner to show their support for Proposition 15, the June ballot measure they say will "clean up" politics by instituting a pilot program for public financing of the campaign for secretary of state.

The trade group, Institute of Governmental Advocates, filed a lawsuit earlier this year to strike down the measure as unconstitutional before it made it to the ballot. The lobbyists, who would foot the bill for the "public funds" with increased fees, argued that the measure would violate First Amendment rights.

A judge dismissed the suit, saying voters should have their say first.

Representatives from the California Nurses Association will be joined by officials from Californians for Fair Elections, the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, Consumer Federation of California at the 11:35 a.m. presser outside the California Healthcare Association offices.

The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee and the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee launch a public probe of the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board today.

The 9:30 a.m. hearing will focus on current procedures and practices that critics say have made it more difficult for Division of Occupational Safety and Health to prosecute employers who break health and safety regulations and created more leeway in reaching settlements.

The Senate Rules Committee also takes up several appointments, including former Republican Assemblywoman Sharon Runner to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.

Runner, who's married to GOP Sen. George Runner, was previously appointed to a $128,000-a-year gig on the Agriculture Labor Relations Board. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled that highly criticized nomination and appointed her to the UIAB post, which pays a similar salary, last March.

In case you missed it yesterday, colleague Steve Wiegand reported that the Citizens Compensation Commission will consider next month taking another 10 percent whack at the salaries of constitutional officers and state legislators.

And on the topic of salaries, The Bee has updated our state worker salary database to include 2009 salaries for all state of California civil service and CSU employees. Click here to search the data.