Amended in Senate July 2, 2014

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 amend Section 87782 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2295, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Community colleges: academic 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. 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.

This bill would provide that an employee’s entitlement to transferred leave of absence begin insert upon reemployment in a different district end insert applies if the employee signifies acceptance of his or her election or employment with another district within begin delete 5 end delete begin insert 3 end insert school years succeeding the school year in which the employment with the first district is terminated begin insert , or within any greater period during which the employee’s reemployment rights are protected under a local bargaining agreement then in effect in the first district end insert .

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 87782 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

87782.  

begin delete Any end delete begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert An end insert academic employee of a community college
district who has been an employee of that district for a period of
one school year or more begin delete and who accepts end delete begin insert shall have transferred
with him or her to a second district the total amount of leave of
absence for illness or injury to which he or she is entitled under
Section 87781 in any of the following circumstances: end insert

begin insert ( end insert begin insert 1) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The person accepts end insert 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
begin delete district, or who, within end delete begin insert district. end insert

begin insert ( end insert begin insert 2) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The person, within end insert the begin delete five end delete begin insert three end insert school years succeeding
the school year in which the employment begin insert in the first district end insert is
terminated, signifies acceptance of his or her election or
employment in an academic position in another begin delete 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 end delete begin insert district. end insert

begin insert (3) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The person, prior to the expiration of a period greater than
three years during which the employee’s reemployment rights are
in effect under a local bargaining agreement in the first district,
signifies acceptance of his or her election or employment in an
academic position in another district. end insert

begin insert ( end insert begin insert b) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The end insert 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.