BILL NUMBER: AB 2295	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 2, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 87782 of the Education Code, relating to
community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2295, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Community colleges: 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 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 provide that an employee's entitlement to
transferred leave of absence  upon reemployment in a different
district  applies if the employee signifies acceptance of his or
her election or employment with another district within  5
  3  school years succeeding the school year in
which the employment with the first district is terminated  , or
within any greater period during which the employee's reemployment
rights are protected under a local bargaining agreement then in
effect in the first district  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: 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   (a)     An
 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   shall have transferred with
him or her to a second district the total amount of leave of absence
for illness or injury to which he or she is entitled under  
Section 87781 in any of the following circumstances: 
    (   1)     The person 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   district. 
    (   2)     The person, within
 the  five   three  school years
succeeding the school year in which the employment  in the first
district  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 
 district. 
    (3)     The person, prior to the expiration
of a period g   reater than three years during which the
employee's reemployment rights are in effect under a local bargaining
agreement in the first district, signifies acceptance of his or her
election or employment in an academic position in another district.

    (   b)     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.