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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2295
Author: Ridley-Thomas (D)
Amended: 7/2/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 5/23/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Community college faculty: sick leave
SOURCE : Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
DIGEST : This bill extends the length of time, from one year
to three years, for which California Community College (CCC)
faculty are entitled to transfer a leave of absence for illness
or injury upon his/her acceptance of election of employment to
another school district or CCC district.
ANALYSIS : Existing law:
1.Allows every academic employee employed five days a week by a
CCC district to be entitled to 10 days leave of absence for
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illness or injury and any additional days that the governing
board may allow for illness or injury, exclusive of all days
he/she is not required to render service to the district, with
full pay for a college year of service.
2.Authorizes the governing board of a CCC district to adopt
rules permitting academic employees of the district to use
illness leave earned in cases of compelling personal
importance, but provides that the additional sick leave time,
together with any other leave for personal necessity, as
specified, shall not exceed six days in any single school
year.
3.Provides that any academic employee of a CCC 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 CCC district at any time during the second or any
succeeding school year of his/her employment with the first
CCC district, or who within the school year succeeding the
school year in which the employment is terminated, signifies
acceptance of his/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/she is entitled, as
specified.
This bill extends the length of time, from one year to three
years, for which any academic employee of a CCC district are
entitled to transfer with him/her a leave of absence for illness
or injury to another district upon his/her acceptance of
election of employment, 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Administration: This bill is unlikely to result in any
significant administrative costs for CCD districts or the
California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS)
CalSTRS retirement benefits: This bill will likely result in
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an increase in total creditable compensation for some faculty,
upon retirement. The increase to CalSTRS liability is
unknown, but could be significant.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/15/14)
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (source)
American Association of University Women
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the Faculty Association of
California Community Colleges (FACCC), sponsor of this measure,
"due to the lack of reasonable assurance of employment,
part-time faculty are never truly terminated from employment."
Rather, they are not offered subsequent courses to teach which
can lead to lapses of longer than a year of employment at any
one district. The FACCC further states that "because of this,
some faculty have experienced difficulty when requesting that
their sick leave be transferred from one district to another
when it has become clear that they are not returning to work at
one district, or if they are ready to retire and did not know
that they only had a year to transfer sick leave."
Additionally, in order for all sick leave to be fully credited
and properly reported to CalSTRS by an employer for retirement
purposes, the faculty may need additional time to complete this
process.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 5/23/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon,
Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor,
Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Olsen, Pan, Patterson,
Perea, John A. Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bonilla, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Melendez,
Nestande, V. Manuel Pérez, Vacancy
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PQ:nl 8/15/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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