BILL NUMBER: SB 150	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        JANUARY 29, 2015

   An act to amend Section 45060 of the Education Code, relating to
certificated school employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 150, as introduced, Huff. Certificated school employees: salary
deduction for organization dues.
   Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to
reduce a certificated school employee's salary, pursuant to the
employee's authorization, to pay the employee's dues in a local or
statewide professional organization.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 45060 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   45060.   (a)    Except as provided in Section
45061, the governing board of each school district, when drawing an
order for the salary payment due to a certificated employee of the
 school  district, shall  with or without charge
 reduce the order  , with or without charge,  by
the amount  which it has been   the employee has
 requested in a revocable written authorization  by the
employee to deduct  for the purpose of paying the dues of
the employee for membership in any local  or statewide 
professional organization  or in any statewide professional
organization,  or in any other professional organization
affiliated or otherwise connected with a statewide professional
organization  which   that  authorizes the
statewide organization to receive membership dues on its behalf and
for the purpose of paying his or her pro rata share of the costs
incurred by the  school  district in making the deduction.
 No   This  charge shall  not 
exceed the actual cost to the  school  district of the dues
deduction.  Any   The  revocation of a
written authorization shall be in writing and shall be effective
commencing with the next pay period. 
    Unless 
    (b)     Unless  otherwise provided in
an agreement negotiated pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with
Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the
governing  board shall,   board of a school
district,  no later than the 10th day of each pay period for
certificated employees,  shall  draw its order upon the
funds of the  school  district in favor of the organization
designated by the employee for an amount equal to the total of the
dues deductions made with respect to that organization for the
previous pay period and shall transmit the total amount to that
organization no later than the 15th day of each pay period for
certificated employees. When timely transmittal of dues payments by a
county is necessary for a school district to comply with the
provisions of this section, the county shall act in a timely manner.
If the employees of a  school  district do not authorize the
 governing  board  of the school district  to make
a deduction to pay their pro rata share of the costs of making
deductions for the payment of dues, the  governing  board
 of the school district  shall deduct from the amount
transmitted to the organization on whose account the dues payments
were deducted the actual costs of making the deduction. 
    The 
    (c)     The  revocable written
authorization shall remain in effect until expressly revoked in
writing by the employee. Whenever there is a change in the amount
required for the payment to the organization, the employee
organization shall provide the employee with adequate and necessary
data on the change at a time sufficiently prior to the effective date
of the change to allow the employee an opportunity to revoke the
written authorization, if desired. The employee organization shall
provide the public school employer with notification of the change at
a time sufficiently  prior to   before 
the effective date of the change to allow the employer an opportunity
to make the necessary adjustments and with a copy of the
notification of the change  which   that 
has been sent to all concerned employees. 
    The 
    (d)     The  governing board  of a
school district  shall not require the completion of a new
deduction authorization when a dues change has been effected or at
any other time without the express approval of the concerned employee
organization.