Bill Text: CA SB114 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Teachers: retirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 829, Statutes of 2012. [SB114 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB114-Amended.html
Bill Title: Teachers: retirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 829, Statutes of 2012. [SB114 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB114-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 114 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 31, 2011 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 4, 2011 AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 23, 2011 AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 10, 2011 INTRODUCED BY Senator Yee JANUARY 19, 2011 An act to add Section 87483.7 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 114, as amended, Yee. Community colleges: academic salary schedules.(1) ExistingExisting 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 district governing boards, throughout the state, and authorizes these districts to employ faculty members to provide instruction to students at the community college campuses maintained by the districts. Existing law requires community college districts with less than 75% of their hours of credit instruction taught by full-time instructors to apply a portion of their program improvement allocation, as provided, to reaching the 75% standard. This bill wouldrequireauthorize community college districts todeterminepresent the compensation of part-time community college faculty using a salary schedule thatplacescompares part-time facultyon comparable salary steps assalaries to salaries of full-time faculty with similar academic preparation and years of experience. The bill wouldrequireauthorize part-time faculty to bepaid in a mannerplaced on a salary schedule that mirrors the same relationship to the placement of full-time faculty on the schedule.Because this bill would impose new duties on community college districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.The bill would authorize a community college district to calculate the salary of a part-time faculty member and report it, as specified. The bill would also prohibit its provisions from affecting the implementation of specified collective bargaining agreements and would authorize its provisions to be subjects of negotiation for new or successor collective bargaining agreements.(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:yesno . State-mandated local program:yesno . THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:SECTION 1.The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Part-time community college faculty are required to hold the same academic credentials and qualifications to teach the same courses as their full-time colleagues. (b) Part-time community college faculty are spending the same number of nonclassroom hours as their full-time colleagues preparing lessons and grading assignments. (c) Part-time community college faculty salaries should accurately reflect the actual work performed both in and out of the classroom, including, but not necessarily limited to, regularly scheduled office hours. (d) An hourly pay schedule for part-time faculty instructional work radically underrepresents to governing boards and the general public the actual work being performed by part-time community college faculty members. (e) Different types of community college instruction incur different numbers of classroom hours per week per full-time equivalent student load, resulting in inequities and errors in salary and service credit reporting when salary is based on classroom hours. (f) Repeated problems have occurred, and continue to occur, with accurate calculation and reporting of service credits from districts to the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) and from STRS to part-time community college faculty members, with particular detriment to part-time faculty members who work in more than one community college district. (g) These problems with STRS reporting could be dramatically resolved by a full-time equivalent (FTE) percentage-based reporting system. (h) Part-time faculty salaries in the University of California and California State University systems, as well as in most K-12 districts, are calculated and reported for all purposes as (FTE).SEC. 2.SECTION 1. Section 87483.7 is added to the Education Code, to read: 87483.7. (a) A community college districtshall determinemay present the compensation of part-time community college faculty using a salary schedule thatplacescompares part-time facultyon comparable salary steps assalaries to salaries of full-time faculty with similar academic preparation and years of experience. Part-time facultyshallmay be placed on a salary schedule that mirrors the same relationship to placement of full-time faculty on the schedule. (b) A community college districtshallmay calculate the salary of a part-time faculty member, and report that salary on payroll notices and to the State Teachers' Retirement System, as a percentage offull-time salarysalary for a full-time teaching load .SEC. 3. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.(c) (1) This section shall not preclude the implementation of any agreement entered into pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code that is in effect before January 1, 2012. To the extent that such an agreement conflicts with this section, the agreement shall prevail. (2) The provisions of this section may be subjects of negotiation with respect to the collective bargaining process relating to any new or successor agreement entered into between a community college district and part-time faculty occurring on or after January 1, 2012.