BILL NUMBER: AB 2295	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2014
	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, 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 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.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 87782 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   87782.  (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 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.
   (2) The person, within the 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.
   (3) The person, prior to the expiration of a period greater 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.