BILL ANALYSIS
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.