Amended in Assembly April 10, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2295

Introduced by Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

February 21, 2014

An act to begin delete add Sections 87781.7 and 88191.5 to end delete begin insert amend Section 87782 of end insert the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2295, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Community colleges: begin delete substitute and short-term end delete begin insert academic end insert employees.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts, administered by governing boards, throughout the state. begin delete Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to grant an academic or classified employee a leave of absence not to exceed one year for a specified purpose. end delete begin insert Existing law requires that the total amount of leave of absence for illness or injury to which an academic employee of a community college district is entitled shall be transferred with him or her to another district if, within the school year succeeding the school year in which his or her employment is terminated, the employee signifies acceptance of his or her election or employment in an academic position in that other district end insert begin insert . end insert

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This bill would authorize a temporary academic or classified employee of a community college district who has been an employee of the district for a minimum of one academic year to retain the total amount of unused sick leave to which he or she is entitled, as specified.

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This bill would provide that an employee’s entitlement to transferred leave of absence applies if the employee signifies acceptance of his or her election or employment with another district within 5 school years succeeding the school year in which the employment with the first district is terminated.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert Section 87782 of the end insert begin insert Education Code end insert begin insert is amended
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87782.  

Any academic employee of a community college 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 community college district at any time during the second
or any succeeding school year of his or her employment with the
first district, or who, within the begin delete school year end delete begin insert five school years end insert
succeeding the school year in which the employment is terminated,
signifies acceptance of his or 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 or she is entitled under
Section 87781. The board of governors shall adopt rules and
regulations prescribing the manner in which the first district shall
certify to the second district the total amount of leave of absence
for illness or injury to be transferred. No governing board shall
adopt any policy or rule, written or unwritten, which requires any
employee transferring to its district to waive any part or all of the
leave of absence which he or she may be entitled to have
transferred in accordance with this section.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 87781.7 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

87781.7.  

Any temporary academic employee of a community
college district who has been an employee of the district for a
minimum of one academic year may retain the total amount of
unused sick leave to which he or she is entitled to pursuant to
Section 87781.

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SEC. 2.  

Section 88191.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:

88191.5.  

Any temporary employee of a community college
district, including a substitute employee or short-term employee
as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 88003, who has been an
employee of the district for a minimum of one academic year may
retain the total amount of unused sick leave to which he or she is
entitled pursuant to Section 88191.

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