Amended in Senate June 12, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 950

Introduced by Assembly Member Chau

February 22, 2013

An act to add Section 87482.3 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 950, as amended, Chau. Community colleges: full-time instructors.

(1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations that establish minimum standards regarding the percentage of hours of credit instruction that full-time instructors are required to teach.

This bill would prohibit a full-time faculty member, as defined, for a community college district from being assigned a workload that includes overload or extra assignments if the overload or extra assignments exceed 50% of a full-time workload in a semester or quarter that commences on or after January 1, 2014. The bill would provide that this prohibition shall not apply to a summer or intersession term, begin delete and end delete begin insert community colleges with fewer than 3,000 full-time equivalent students, or to certain programs, as specified. The bill would also provide that the prohibition would end insert not supersede the pertinent requirements of a collective bargaining agreement containing restrictions regarding limitations on overload or extra assignments that begin delete are more stringent than the limitations imposed by the bill end delete begin insert is in effect when this bill becomes operative end insert .

With respect to a community college district with a collective bargaining agreement that, as of January 1, 2014, prohibits a full-time faculty member from being assigned a workload that includes overload or extra assignments if the overload or extra assignments exceed 50% of a full-time workload, the prohibition in the bill would become operative on January 1, 2015. The prohibition in the bill would also apply to the workload of supervisory or managerial personnel of a community college district who are performing faculty work that is allowed under an applicable collective bargaining agreement.

To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on community college districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.

(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 87482.3 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

87482.3.  

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and
(d), a full-time faculty member, as defined in Section 87003, for
a community college district shall not be assigned a workload that
includes overload or extra assignments if the overload or extra
assignments exceed 50 percent of a full-time workload in a
semester or quarter that commences on or after January 1, 2014.

(b) The prohibition in subdivision (a) shall not apply to begin delete a end delete begin insert all of
the following: end insert

begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert A end insert summer or intersession term.

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(2) A community college district with fewer than 3,000 full-time
equivalent students.

end insert begin insert

(3) Programs in the Taxonomy of Programs Code 09 for
Engineering and Industrial Technologies, as described in the
California Community College Taxonomy of Programs.

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(c) The prohibition in subdivision (a) shall not supersede the
pertinent requirements of a collective bargaining agreement
containing restrictions regarding limitations on overload or extra
assignments that begin delete are more stringent than the limitations in
subdivision (a) end delete begin insert is in effect at the time this section becomes
operative end insert .

(d) With respect to a community college district with a collective
bargaining agreement that, as of January 1, 2014, prohibits a
full-time faculty member from being assigned a workload that
includes overload or extra assignments if the overload or extra
assignments exceed 50 percent of a full-time workload, the
prohibition in subdivision (a) shall become operative on January
1, 2015.

(e) The prohibition in subdivision (a) shall apply to the workload
of supervisory or managerial personnel of a community college
district who are performing faculty work that is allowed under an
applicable collective bargaining agreement.

SEC. 2.  

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.