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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1215
Author: De La Torre (D)
Amended: 5/12/09 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 8-0, 7/1/09
AYES: Romero, Huff, Alquist, Liu, Maldonado, Padilla,
Simitian, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Hancock
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/18/09 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Community colleges: temporary and part-time
faculty
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill corrects a technical error to
provisions of the Education Code concerning temporary and
part-time nursing faculty.
ANALYSIS : 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
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percent 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, Statutes of 2007, allows CCCs to exceed the
two-semester limitation to employ any clinical nursing
faculty who teach more than 60 percent 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.
This bill conforms the definition of part-time nursing
faculty to Section 87482.5 of the Education Code.
Identical/related legislation . This bill is identical to
provisions in SB 511 (Senate Education Committee), 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 the Senate Education Committee with a vote of
9-0 on April 29, 2009.
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 percent 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 7/2/09)
California Association of Health Facilities
California Community Colleges Board of Governors
California Nurses Association
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Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Duvall, Emmerson, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick,
Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill,
Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Krekorian, Lieu,
Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning,
Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, John A. Perez, V. Manuel
Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Silva, Skinner, Smyth,
Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres,
Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada, Bass
NO VOTE RECORDED: Eng, Price, Saldana
DLW:mw 9/3/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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