BILL NUMBER: AB 2295	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to  add Sections 87781.7 and 88191.5 to 
 amend Section 87782 of  the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2295, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Community colleges: 
substitute and short-term   academic  employees.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. Existing law establishes community college
districts, administered by governing boards, throughout the state.
 Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community
college district to grant an academic or classified employee a leave
of absence not to exceed one year for a specified purpose. 
 Existing law requires that the total amount of leave of absence
for illness or injury to which an academic employee of a community
college district is entitled shall be transferred with him or her to
another   district if, within the school year succeeding the
school year in which his or her employment is terminated, the
employee signifies acceptance of his or her election or employment in
an academic position in that other district   . 

   This bill would authorize a temporary academic or classified
employee of a community college district who has been an employee of
the district for a minimum of one academic year to retain the total
amount of unused sick leave to which he or she is entitled, as
specified.  
   This bill would provide that an employee's entitlement to
transferred leave of absence applies if the employee signifies
acceptance of his or her election or employment with another district
within 5 school years succeeding the school year in which the
employment with the first district is terminated. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION   1.    Section 87782 of the 
 Education Code   is amended to read: 
   87782.  Any academic employee of a community college district who
has been an employee of that district for a period of one school year
or more and who accepts an academic position in a school district or
community college district at any time during the second or any
succeeding school year of his or her employment with the first
district, or who, within the  school year   five
school years  succeeding the school year in which the
employment is terminated, signifies acceptance of his or her election
or employment in an academic position in another district, shall
have transferred with him or her to the second district the total
amount of leave of absence for illness or injury to which he or she
is entitled under Section 87781. The board of governors shall adopt
rules and regulations prescribing the manner in which the first
district shall certify to the second district the total amount of
leave of absence for illness or injury to be transferred. No
governing board shall adopt any policy or rule, written or unwritten,
which requires any employee transferring to its district to waive
any part or all of the leave of absence which he or she may be
entitled to have transferred in accordance with this section.

  SECTION 1.    Section 87781.7 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
   87781.7.  Any temporary academic employee of a community college
district who has been an employee of the district for a minimum of
one academic year may retain the total amount of unused sick leave to
which he or she is entitled to pursuant to Section 87781. 

  SEC. 2.    Section 88191.5 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
   88191.5.  Any temporary employee of a community college district,
including a substitute employee or short-term employee as defined in
subdivision (b) of Section 88003, who has been an employee of the
district for a minimum of one academic year may retain the total
amount of unused sick leave to which he or she is entitled pursuant
to Section 88191.