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                          SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
                               Gloria Romero, Chair
                            2009-2010 Regular Session
                                         

          BILL NO:       AB 1215
          AUTHOR:        De La Torre
          AMENDED:       May 12, 2009
          FISCAL COMM:   No             HEARING DATE:  July 1, 2009
          URGENCY:       No             CONSULTANT:Beth Graybill

           SUBJECT  :  Community Colleges:  Nursing faculty.
          
           SUMMARY:   

          This bill corrects a technical error to provisions of the  
          Education Code concerning temporary and part-time nursing  
          faculty.

           BACKGROUND  

          Current law, Section 87482.5 of the Education Code, specifies  
          that an individual who is employed to teach adult or  
          community college classes for not more than 67 percent of the  
          hours per week considered a full-time assignment for regular  
          employees having comparable duties shall be classified as a  
          temporary employee.  

          Current law prohibits California Community Colleges (CCCs)  
          from employing any temporary faculty who teaches more than  
          67% of a full-time assignment for more than two semesters  
          (three quarters) within any period of three consecutive  
          years.  

          Current law, SB 139 (Scott, Chapter 522, 2007) allows CCCs to  
          exceed the two-semester limitation to employ any clinical  
          nursing faculty who teach more than 60% of a full-time  
          assignment for up to four semesters (six quarters) during the  
          period between July 1, 2007, and June 30, 2014, if the hiring  
          of that person does not result in an increase in the ratio of  
          part-time to full-time faculty in that district.  After June  
          30, 2014, clinical nursing faculty will again be subject to  
          the two-semester limitation.  

           ANALYSIS  

           This bill  conforms the definition of part-time nursing  



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          faculty to Section 87482.5 of the Education Code.  

           STAFF COMMENTS  

           1)   Identical & related legislation  .  This bill is identical  
               to provisions in SB 511 (Senate Committee on Education),  
               that conforms the proportion of hours per week of a  
               full-time faculty assignment which an individual  
               employed to teach adult or community college courses may  
               teach and still be classified as a temporary employee.   
               This bill amends Sections 87482 and 87882 of the  
               Education Code to cross reference Section 87482.5 in  
               order to conform 
               clinical nursing faculty provisions to current law.  SB  
               511 was passed by this Committee on consent on April 29,  
               2009.  

               On April 29, 2009, this Committee also passed (6-1) SB  
               182 (Ashburn) which removes temporarily several existing  
               statutory employment restrictions related to community  
               college temporary clinical nursing faculty, thereby  
               allowing such faculty who work more than 60% of a  
               full-time assignment to be employed for more than four  
               semesters.  A similar bill, AB 492 (Conway) includes the  
               same provisions as SB 182 and is scheduled to be heard  
               by this Committee on July 1, 2009. 

           SUPPORT
           
          California Association of Health Facilities
          California Community Colleges Board of Governors
          California Nurses Association
          Faculty Association of California Community Colleges

           OPPOSITION
           
          None received.