BILL NUMBER: AB 835	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Muratsuchi

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 44929.21 of the Education Code, relating
to certificated school employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 835, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Certificated school employees:
permanent status.
   Existing law provides that a certificated employee of a school
district with an average daily attendance of 250 or more who is
employed for 2 complete consecutive school years and who is reelected
for the next succeeding school year is required to be classified as
a permanent employee, and provides for specified notice requirements
in that regard.
   This bill would delete obsolete provisions and would make other
nonsubstantive changes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 44929.21 of the Education Code is amended to
read: 
   44929.21.  (a) Every employee of a school district of any type or
class having an average daily attendance of 250 or more who, after
having been employed by the district for three complete consecutive
school years in a position or positions requiring certification
qualifications, is reelected for the next succeeding school year to a
position requiring certification qualifications shall, at the
commencement of the succeeding school year be classified as and
become a permanent employee of the district.
   This subdivision shall apply only to probationary employees whose
probationary period commenced prior to the 1983-84 fiscal year.
   (b) 
    44929.21.    (a)  Every employee of a school
district of any type or class having an average daily attendance of
250 or more who, after having been employed by the  school 
district for two complete consecutive school years in a position or
positions requiring certification qualifications, is reelected for
the next succeeding school year to a position requiring certification
qualifications shall, at the commencement of the succeeding school
year  ,  be classified as  ,  and  shall 
become  ,  a permanent employee of the  school 
district. 
    The 
    (b)     The  governing board shall
notify the employee, on or before March 15 of the employee's second
complete consecutive school year of employment by the  school
 district in a position or positions requiring certification
qualifications, of the decision to reelect or not reelect the
employee for the next succeeding school year to the position.
 In the event that   If  the governing
board does not give notice pursuant to this section on or before
March 15, the employee shall be deemed reelected for the next
succeeding school year. 
   This subdivision shall apply only to probationary employees whose
probationary period commenced during the 1983-84 fiscal year or any
fiscal year thereafter.