BILL NUMBER: AB 2294	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 9, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 89511 to the Education Code, relating to the
California State University.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2294, as amended, Gomez. The California State University:
employees: leaves of absence without loss of compensation.
   Existing law establishes the California State University, under
the administration of the Board of Trustees of the California State
University, as one of the 3 segments of public postsecondary
education in California. Existing law requires the trustees to
provide by rule for the government of their appointees and employees,
and authorizes the trustees to grant a leave of absence without
compensation to any nonacademic employee.
   This bill would require the trustees to grant to any employee,
upon  request,   a request that provides at
least 30 days notice before commencement,  a leave of absence
without loss of compensation, including retirement fund
contributions, for the purpose of enabling the employee to serve as
an elected officer of any California State University campus public
employee  organization,   organization  or
 of  any statewide or national public employee
organization with which the university campus organization is
affiliated. The bill would require the university or campus of the
university to be reimbursed by the employee organization for all
compensation paid during the leave of absence. The bill also would
provide that the leave of absence without loss of compensation
provided by these provisions would be in addition to the released
time without loss of compensation granted to representatives of an
exclusive representative for purposes of meeting and conferring or
for the processing of grievances.
   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 89511 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   89511.  (a) The trustees shall grant to any employee, upon
 request,   a request that provides at least 30
days notice before commencement,  a leave of absence without
loss of compensation for the purpose of enabling the employee to
serve as an elected officer of any California State University campus
public employee  organization,   organization
 or  of  any statewide or national public
employee organization with which the university campus organization
is affiliated.
   (b) The leave shall include, but is not limited to, absence for
purposes of attendance by the employee at periodic, stated, special,
or regular meetings of the body of the organization on which the
employee serves as an officer. Compensation during the leave shall
include retirement fund contributions required of the university or a
campus of the university as employer. Required retirement
contributions shall include the amount necessary to pay any unfunded
liability cost for the retirement plan. The employee shall earn full
service credit during the leave of absence and shall pay member
contributions as prescribed by Chapter 8 (commencing with Section
20671) of  part   Part  3 of Division 5 of
 title   Title  2 of the Government Code.
The maximum amount of the service credit earned shall not exceed 12
calendar years. Any employee who serves as a full-time officer of a
public employee organization shall not be eligible for disability
benefits under the Public Employees' Retirement System while on the
leave of absence.
   (c) Following the university's or campus of the university's
payment of the employee for the leave of absence, the university or
campus of the university shall be reimbursed by the employee
organization of which the employee is an elected officer for all
compensation paid the employee on account of the leave. Reimbursement
by the employee organization shall be made within 10 days after its
receipt of the certification of payment of compensation to the
employee.
   (d) The leave of absence without loss of compensation provided for
by this section is in addition to the released time without loss of
compensation granted to representatives of an exclusive
representative by Section 3569 of the Government Code.