text:
(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, during each school year, a classified employee may use his or her sick leave for purposes of parental leave for a period of up to 12 workweeks.

(2) In the community college districts that use the differential pay system described in the first paragraph of Section 88196, when an employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of parental leave pursuant to Section 12945.2 of the Government Code, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the remaining portion of the 12-workweek period in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence.

(3) In community college districts that use the differential pay system described in the last paragraph of Section 88196, when an employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of parental leave pursuant to Section 12945.2 of the Government Code, the employee shall be compensated at no less than 50 percent of the employee’s regular salary for the remaining portion of the 12-workweek period of parental leave.

(4) Regardless of the type of differential pay system used by the community college district pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3), the compensation a classified employee shall receive shall be no less than 50 percent of his or her regular salary for the remaining portion of the 12-workweek period of parental leave.

(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), all of the following apply:

(1) The 12-workweek period of parental leave shall be reduced by any period of sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, taken during a period of parental leave.

(2) An employee shall not be provided more than one 12-workweek period for parental leave during any 12-month period.

(3) Parental leave taken pursuant to this section shall run concurrently with parental leave taken pursuant to Section 12945.2 of the Government Code. The aggregate amount of parental leave taken pursuant to this section and Section 12945.2 of the Government Code shall not exceed 12 workweeks in a 12-month period.

(c) This section shall be applicable whether or not the absence from duty is by reason of a leave of absence granted by the governing board of the employing community college district.

(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 12945.2 of the Government Code, a classified employee is not required to have 1,250 hours of service with the employer during the previous 12-month period in order to take parental leave pursuant to this section.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish the obligation of a public school employer to comply with any collective bargaining agreement entered into by a public school employer and an exclusive bargaining representative pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code that provides greater parental leave rights to employees than the rights established under this section.

(f) For purposes of this section, “parental leave” means leave for reason of the birth of a child of the employee, or the placement of a child with an employee in connection with the adoption or foster care of the child by the employee.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 994, Sec. 4. (AB 2012) Effective January 1, 2019.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


kind: section

code: EDC

text:
A community college district may deduct from the salary otherwise payable to an employee under Section 88196 an amount which is payable, in lieu of salary and on account of the absence for illness or accident, to the employee as the beneficiary under a policy of insurance purchased by the district.

This section shall not be applicable unless specifically included in a collective bargaining agreement between the exclusive representative and the school employer.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 323.)

division: 7. COMMUNITY COLLEGES

part: 51. EMPLOYEES

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 4. Classified Employees

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence

path: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION > 7. COMMUNITY COLLEGES > 51. EMPLOYEES > 4. Classified Employees > 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
(a) Every community college district shall grant to regular classified employees an annual vacation at the regular rate of pay earned at the time the vacation is commenced. The vacation shall be as determined by the community college district, but shall be not less than five-sixths of a day for each month in which the employee is in a paid status for more than one-half the working days in the month, if the employee is regularly employed five days per week, seven to eight hours a day. An employee in a paid status for less than one-half the working days in a month shall have his or her vacation credit accrued on the basis provided for in subdivision (b) or (c).

(b) In lieu of accrual of vacation credit on a monthly basis and proration as prescribed in subdivision (a), a district may provide for accrual of vacation credit on any of the following bases:

(1) For all employees or classes of employees who work a full workweek of 40 hours, the district shall provide 0.03846 hour of vacation credit for each hour of paid service, not including overtime.

(2) For all employees or classes of employees who work a full workweek of 37.5 hours, the district shall provide 0.04087 hour of vacation credit for each hour of paid service, not including overtime.

(3) For all employees or classes of employees who work a full workweek of 35 hours, the district shall provide 0.04379 hour of vacation credit for each hour of paid service, not including overtime.

(c) For all employees regularly employed for fewer than 35 hours a week, regardless of the number of hours or days worked per week, the vacation credit shall be computed at the rate of 0.03846 for each hour the employee is in paid status, not including overtime.

(d) Vacation, with the approval of the employer, may be taken at any time during the college year. If the employee is not permitted to take his or her full annual vacation, the amount not taken shall accumulate for use in the next year or be paid for in cash at the option of the governing board.

(e) Earned vacation shall not become a vested right until completion of the initial six months of employment.

(f) The employee may be granted vacation during the college year even though not earned at the time the vacation is taken.

(g) If an employee is terminated and had been granted vacation which was not yet earned at the time of termination of his or her services, the employer shall deduct from the employee’s severance check the full amount of salary which was paid for such unearned days of vacation taken.

(h) Upon separation from service, the employee shall be entitled to lump-sum compensation for all earned and unused vacation, except that employees who have not completed six months of employment in regular status shall not be entitled to such compensation.

(i) This section shall not apply to substitute, short-term, or limited-term employees, as defined in Sections 88003 and 88105, unless those employees are specifically included by the district.

(j) The district may expand the benefits provided for in this section.

(k) This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060).

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 235. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text: When any provision of this code expressly authorizes or requires the governing board of a community college district to grant a leave of absence for any purpose or for any period of time to persons employed in classified positions, that express authorization or requirement shall not deprive the governing board of the power to grant leaves of absence with or without pay to those employees for other purposes or for other periods of time, so long as the governing board does not deprive any employee of any leave of absence to which he or she is entitled by law.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 236. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text: Governing boards of community college districts may grant leaves of absence to persons employed in nonacademic positions, and at their discretion may pay compensation at the rate the board prescribes, during the absence, to any employee whose absence is caused by accident or illness, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, or because of quarantine which results from his or her contact with other persons having a contagious disease while performing his or her duties.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1302, Sec. 198. Effective September 25, 1990.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
Governing boards of community college districts may allow permanent classified employees to interrupt or terminate vacation leave in order to begin another type of paid leave without a return to active service, provided the employee supplies adequate notice and relevant supporting information regarding the basis for such interruption or termination.

This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060) of this chapter.

history: (History: Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text: The governing boards of any community college district may accept the resignation of any employee and may fix the time when the resignation shall take effect, which shall not be later than the close of the school year during which the resignation is received by the board.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
Any classified employee of a community college district, school district, or county superintendent of schools who has been employed for a period of one calendar year or more whose employment is terminated for reasons other than action initiated by the employer for cause and who subsequently accepts employment with a community college district or county superintendent of schools within one year of the termination of his or her former employment, shall have transferred with him or her to the employing community college district or county superintendent of schools the total amount of earned leave of absence for illness or injury to which he or she is entitled under Section 45191 or 88191. This transfer shall be in the same manner as is provided for academic employees.

In any case where an employee was terminated as a result of action initiated by the employer for cause, the transfer may be made if agreed to by the governing board of the community college district or the county superintendent of schools newly employing the employee.

All or any part of the previous service, not separated by a break in service greater than one year as of the last day of paid service, may, if agreed to by the employing entity, be construed to have been served in the employing community college district or county superintendent of schools of employment for seniority purposes, except that the previous service may not be counted, for seniority purposes, when position or personnel reduction is ordered, for any reason, by the board.

No governing board of a community college district shall adopt any policy or rule, written or unwritten, that requires all classified employees, or any individual classification, or group of classifications of employees transferring to its district to waive any part or all benefits which they may be entitled to have transferred in accordance with this section.

This section shall apply to community college districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060) of this chapter.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 326, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1994.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
(a) (1) All probationary or permanent employees who are part of the classified service shall be entitled to the following paid holidays if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the holiday:

(A) January 1.

(B) February 12 known as “Lincoln Day.”

(C) The third Monday in February known as “Washington Day.”

(D) The last Monday in May known as “Memorial Day.”

(E) July 4.

(F) The first Monday in September known as “Labor Day.”

(G) November 11 known as “Veterans Day.”

(H) That Thursday in November proclaimed by the President as “Thanksgiving Day.”

(I) December 25.

(J) Every day appointed by the President, or the Governor of this state, as provided for in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 79020 for a public fast, thanksgiving, or holiday.

(K) Any day declared a holiday under Section 1318 for classified or academic employees.

(2) College recesses during the Christmas and Easter periods shall not be considered holidays for classified employees who are normally required to work during that period; provided, however, that this shall not be construed as affecting vacation rights specified in this section.

(3) For purposes of this section, “appointed by the President” includes the President signing into law legislation that creates a nationwide federal holiday, including the legal public holidays listed in subsection (a) of Section 6103 of Title 5 of the United States Code, but does not include Columbus Day. This definition is declaratory of existing law.

(b) Regular employees of the community college district who are not normally assigned to duty during the community college holidays of December 25 and January 1 shall be paid for those two holidays if they were in a paid status during any portion of the working day of their normal assignment immediately preceding or succeeding the holiday period.

(c) When a holiday listed in this section falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be deemed to be the holiday in lieu of the day observed. When a holiday listed in this section falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be deemed to be the holiday in lieu of the day observed. When a classified employee is required to work on any of the holidays listed in this section, they shall be paid compensation, or given compensating time off, for such work, in addition to the regular pay received for the holiday, at the rate of time and one-half their regular rate of pay.

(d) Article 3 (commencing with Section 79020) of Chapter 8 of Part 48 shall not be construed to in any way limit this section, nor shall anything in this section be construed to prohibit the governing board of a community college district from adopting separate work schedules for the academic and the classified services, or from providing holiday pay for employees who have not been in paid status on the days specified in this section. Notwithstanding the adoption of separate work schedules for the academic and the classified services, on any schoolday during which students would otherwise have been in attendance, but are not and for which faculty receive regular pay, classified personnel shall also receive regular pay whether or not they are required to report for duty that day.

(e) In addition to the other paid holidays specified in this section, the classified service may be entitled to a paid holiday on March 31 known as “Cesar Chavez Day,” a paid holiday on April 24 known as “Genocide Remembrance Day,” a paid holiday on the 15th day of the month of Kartik in the Hindu lunar calendar of each year, known as “Diwali,” and a paid holiday on the fourth Friday in September known as “Native American Day,” if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the holiday, if the governing board of the community college district, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, agrees to the paid holiday.

(f) In lieu of a paid holiday on February 12, Lincoln Day, or the third Monday in February, Washington Day, as specified in this section, the classified service shall be entitled to a paid holiday on the date corresponding to the Lunar New Year holiday selected pursuant to subdivision (n) of Section 79020, if they are in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the Lunar New Year holiday, if the governing board of the community college district, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, agrees to the replacement holiday pursuant to subdivision (n) of Section 79020.

(g) This section shall apply to community college districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060).

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 358, Sec. 6. (AB 268) Effective January 1, 2026.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 88203, if a community college district establishes a position or class of positions for which employees are required to work exclusively on weekends and holidays, and for which a special salary rate is established that recognizes the exclusive weekend and holiday peculiarity, the employees and positions may be exempted, by the personnel commission, where applicable, or the governing board from the benefits of Section 88203. No governing board may create a position or a class of positions, under this section, to avoid payment of overtime.

This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060) of this chapter.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
Prior to July 1 of any college year, the governing board of any community college district may designate other days during that year as the holidays to which classified employees are entitled in lieu of the holidays on February 12 known as “Lincoln Day,” the third Monday in February known as “Washington Day,” the last Monday in May known as “Memorial Day,” or November 11 known as “Veterans Day” as specified in Section 88203, if the designated days provide for at least a three-day weekend. Classified employees shall be required to work on the regular holiday for which another day is designated pursuant to this section, and for work of eight hours or less, shall be paid compensation at their regular rate of pay.

If any classified employee would be entitled to the regular paid holiday but would not be in a paid status during any portion of the working day immediately preceding or succeeding the day so designated in lieu of that holiday and therefore would not be entitled to a day in lieu of the holiday, he or she shall be entitled to the regular holiday; however, if the employee is required to work on that holiday, he or she shall be paid compensation at the rate of time and one-half of his or her regular rate of pay in addition to the regular pay received for the holiday.

This section shall not be construed to authorize the maintenance of colleges on holidays other than as provided in Article 3 (commencing with Section 79020) of Chapter 8 of Part 48.

This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060).

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 238. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the governing board of a community college district does not designate September 9 known as “Admission Day” as a paid holiday for classified employees, the district shall provide a substitute holiday for those employees. The substitute holiday shall be provided as specified in Section 88205.

This section shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060).

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 239. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text: Any community college district that requires any classified employee to work a workweek other than Monday through Friday, or if the classified employee consents to a workweek including Saturday or Sunday, or both, and as a result thereof the employee loses a holiday to which he or she would otherwise be entitled, shall provide a substitute holiday for the employee, or provide compensation in the amount to which the employee would have been entitled had the holiday fallen within his or her normal work schedule.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 240. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
(a) A contract or regular employee may, at the employee’s election, use any days of absence for illness or injury earned pursuant to Section 88191 in cases of personal necessity, including any of the following:

(1) Death of a member of the employee’s immediate family when additional leave is required beyond that provided both in Section 88194 and as a right by the governing board.

(2) Accident involving the person or property of the employee or of a member of his or her immediate family.

(3) Appearance in any court or before any administrative tribunal as a litigant, party, or witness under subpoena or any order made with jurisdiction.

(4) Any other reasons that the governing board may prescribe.

(b) The governing board of each community college district shall adopt rules and regulations requiring and prescribing the manner of proof of personal necessity for the purpose of this section. The adopted rules and regulations may not require an employee to secure advance permission for leave taken for the purposes specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a). Earned leave in excess of seven days may not be used in any college year for the purposes enumerated in this section except if either of the following conditions exist:

(1) A maximum number of days in excess of seven is specified for that purpose in an agreement between the exclusive representative of the employees and the community college district.

(2) If there is no exclusive representative of the employees, the governing board of the community college district, by resolution, adopts a policy allowing earned leave in excess of seven days to be used in any school year for the purposes enumerated in this section.

(c) Authorized necessity leave shall be deducted from sick leave earned under the exemption of Section 88191.

(d) For purposes of this section, “immediate family” has the same meaning as in Section 88194.

(e) This section applies to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060) and to community college districts that may be exempted from Section 88191.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 843, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2004.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
(a) A contract or regular employee may use up to 30 days of leave in a school year, less any days of leave authorized pursuant to Section 88207, in either of the following circumstances:

(1) A biological parent may use leave pursuant to this section within the first year of his or her infant’s birth.

(2) A nonbiological parent may use leave pursuant to this section within the first year of legally adopting a child.

(b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement in effect before January 1, 2015, the provisions of this section do not apply to the public employer and public employees subject to that agreement until the expiration or renewal of the agreement.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 133. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text: The Director of Employment Development is the administrator of the system of unemployment insurance, as provided in Article 6 (commencing with Section 821) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text:
(a) (1) The governing board of a community college district shall grant to a classified employee, upon request, a leave of absence without loss of compensation for the purpose of enabling the employee to serve as an elected officer of a local community college district public employee organization, or of a statewide or national public employee organization with which the local organization is affiliated.

(2) The leave shall include, but is not limited to, absence for purposes of attendance by the employee at periodic, stated, special, or regular meetings of the body of the organization on which the employee serves as an officer. Compensation during the leave shall include retirement fund contributions required of the community college district employer. The employee shall earn full service credit during the leave of absence and shall pay member contributions as prescribed by subdivision (a) of Section 20677 of the Government Code.

(b) Upon request of a recognized local community college district public employee organization, or a statewide or national public employee organization with which the local organization is affiliated, the governing board of a community college district shall grant a leave of absence, without loss of compensation, to a reasonable number of unelected classified employees for the purpose of enabling an employee to attend important organizational activities authorized by the public employee organization. Compensation during the leave shall include retirement fund contributions required of the community college district as employer. The employee shall earn full service credit during the leave of absence and shall pay member contributions as prescribed by subdivision (a) of Section 20677 of the Government Code.

(c) Following the community college district’s payment of the employee for the leave of absence, the community college district shall be reimbursed by the employee organization of which the employee is an elected officer or an unelected member for all compensation paid the employee on account of the leave. Reimbursement by the employee organization shall be made within 10 days after its receipt of the community college district’s certification of payment of compensation to the employee.

(d) The leave of absence without loss of compensation provided for by this section is in addition to the released time without loss of compensation granted to representatives of an exclusive representative by subdivision (c) of Section 3543.1 of the Government Code. The leave provided under this section shall be in addition to any leave to which public employees may be entitled by other laws or by a memorandum of understanding or collective bargaining agreement.

(e) The representing employee organization shall provide reasonable notification to the employer requesting a leave of absence without loss of compensation pursuant to subdivision (a).

(f) (1) A classified employee who after August 31, 1987, was absent on account of elected-officer service, shall receive full service credit in the Public Employees’ Retirement System, provided that both of the following conditions are met:

(A) The employee makes a written request to the employer for a leave of absence for the period of the elected-officer service.

(B) The employee organization of which the employee is an elected officer pays to the employee’s community college district an amount equal to the required Public Employees’ Retirement System member and employer retirement contributions, as prescribed by this section.

(2) The community college district, following the written request and payment, shall transmit the amount received to the Public Employees’ Retirement System, informing it of the period of the employee’s leave of absence. The Public Employees’ Retirement System shall credit the employee with all service credit earned for the period of the elected-officer leave of absence.

(3) If the employee has been compensated by the community college district for the period of the service, then, as a condition to the employee’s entitlement to service credit for the period, the community college district shall be reimbursed by the employee organization for the amount of the compensation.

(g) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, this section shall apply retroactively to all service as an elected officer in a public employee organization occurring after August 31, 1987.

(h) This section shall not apply to an employee who is subject to a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for a leave of absence without loss of compensation for participation in authorized activities as an elected officer or an unelected member of the public employee organization.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 539, Sec. 5. (SB 294) Effective January 1, 2022.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 6. Resignations and Leaves of Absence


text: In enacting this article the Legislature recognizes that technological and other changes are occurring which may displace otherwise desirable classified employees in the public school systems of the state. The Legislature intends that the enactment of this article will encourage classified employees to prepare themselves for the changes that are occurring and will also encourage governing boards to utilize the article to further study and retraining by classified personnel.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study

path: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION > 7. COMMUNITY COLLEGES > 51. EMPLOYEES > 4. Classified Employees > 7. Retraining and Study


text:
The governing board of any community college district may grant any classified employee a leave of absence not to exceed one year for the purpose of permitting study by the employee or for the purpose of retraining the employee to meet changing conditions within the district.

The governing board may provide that such a leave of absence shall be taken in separate six-month periods or in any other appropriate periods, rather than for a continuous one-year period; provided, that the separate periods of leave of absence shall be commenced and completed within a three-year period. Any period of service by the individual intervening between the authorized separate periods shall comprise a part of the service required for a subsequent leave of absence for study or retraining purposes.

In community college districts operating under the merit system, such leaves of absence shall be granted in accordance with rules established by the personnel commission.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text:
No leave of absence shall be granted under this article to any employee for study purposes who has not rendered service to the district for at least seven consecutive years, or for retraining purposes who has not rendered service to the district for at least three consecutive years preceding the granting of the leave, and no more than one such leave of absence shall be granted in each seven- or three-year period, respectively. The governing board, or personnel commission in merit system districts, may prescribe standards of service which shall entitle the employee to the leave of absence.

Any leave of absence granted under this article shall not be deemed a break in service for any purpose, except that such leave shall not be included as service in computing service for the granting of any subsequent leave under this article.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text: Every employee granted a leave of absence pursuant to this article may be required to perform such services during the leave as the governing board of the district and the employee may agree upon in writing. The employee shall receive such compensation during the period of the leave as the governing board and the employee may agree upon in writing, which compensation shall be not less than the difference between the salary of the employee on leave and the salary of a substitute employee in the position which the employee held prior to the granting of the leave. However, in lieu of such difference, the board may pay one-half of the salary of the employee on leave or any additional amount up to and including the full salary of the employee on leave.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text: Compensation granted by the governing board to the employee on leave may be paid in two equal annual installments during the first two years of service rendered in the employ of the governing board following the return of the employee from the leave of absence. The compensation shall be paid the employee while on the leave of absence in the same manner as if the employee were working for the district, upon the furnishing by the employee of a suitable bond indemnifying the governing board of the district against loss in the event that the employee fails to render at least two years’ service in the employ of the governing board following the return of the employee from the leave of absence. The bond shall be exonerated in the event the failure of the employee to return and render two years’ service is caused by the death or physicial or mental disability of the employee. If the governing board finds, and by resolution declares, that the interests of the district will be protected by the written agreement of the employee to return to the service of the district and render at least two years’ service therein following his return from the leave, the governing board in its discretion may waive the furnishing of the bond and pay the employee on leave in the same manner as though a bond is furnished.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text: Where one governing board serves as the governing board of two or more separate districts, an employee may fulfill the service requirements provided in Sections 88222 or 88224, or both, by service in any one or more of the districts under the jurisdiction of such governing board.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text: This article shall apply to districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060) of this chapter or other applicable provisions of this code that may hereafter be enacted.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text: The governing board of any community college district may grant reimbursement of the costs, including tuition fees, to any permanent classified employee who satisfactorily completes approved training to improve his or her job knowledge, ability, or skill. Programs eligible for reimbursement shall include, but not be limited to, courses of study at approved academic institutions, seminars and training institutes conducted by recognized professional associations, and conferences, meetings, and other training programs that are designed to upgrade the classified service and to encourage retraining of employees who may otherwise be subject to layoff as the result of technological changes. Eligibility for reimbursement shall be in accordance with rules established by the personnel commission in those districts that have adopted a merit system. This section shall not apply to any employee who is receiving training and is eligible for reimbursement by any other governmental agency, organization, or association.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 242. Effective January 1, 1996.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 7. Retraining and Study


text: This article may be cited as the Instructional Aide Act of 1968. The provisions of this article shall apply to personnel referred to in Section 72401 or any other section enacted before or after November 13, 1968, who perform the duties of instructional aides.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 470, Sec. 406.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides

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text: The Legislature recognizes the need to provide classroom instructors and other faculty with more time to instruct and to provide the means for them to utilize their professional knowledge and skills more effectively in the educational programs of the public schools. It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the employment of instructional aides in order that classroom instructors and other faculty may draw upon the services of instructional aides to assist them in ways determined to be useful in improving the quality of educational opportunities for students.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1302, Sec. 201. Effective September 25, 1990.)

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article: 8. Instructional Aides


text:
Instructional aides shall not be utilized to increase the number of students in relation to the number of classroom instructors in any community college district.

All instructional aide positions in a community college district shall be assigned the basic title of “instructional aide” or other appropriate title designated by the governing board. To provide for differences in responsibilities and duties, additions to the basic title may be assigned such as “instructional aide I or II” or “instructional aide—volunteer,” or other appropriate title.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 470, Sec. 407.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides


text: As used in this article, “instructional aide” means a person employed to assist classroom instructors and other faculty in the performance of their duties and in the supervision of students and in instructional tasks which, in the judgment of the faculty to whom the instructional aide is assigned, may be performed by a person not qualified as a classroom instructor.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1302, Sec. 202. Effective September 25, 1990.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides


text:
(a) Subject to the provisions of this article, any community college district may employ instructional aides to assist classroom instructors and other faculty in the performance of duties as defined in Section 88243. An instructional aide shall perform only such duties as, in the judgment of the faculty to whom the instructional aide is assigned, may be performed by a person not qualified as a classroom instructor. These duties shall not include assignment of grades to students. An instructional aide need not perform such duties in the physical presence of the instructor but the faculty member shall retain responsibility for the instruction and supervision of the students in his or her charge.

(b) Educational qualifications for instructional aides shall be prescribed by the community college district employer and shall be appropriate to the responsibilities to be assigned.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1302, Sec. 203. Effective September 25, 1990.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides


text: No instructional aide shall give out any personal information concerning any student who is not his or her own child or ward, except under judicial process, to any person other than a faculty member or administrator in the college which the student attends. A violation of this section may be a cause for disciplinary action, including dismissal.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 243. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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article: 8. Instructional Aides


text:
(a) An instructional aide shall not be deemed an academic employee for the purposes of apportioning state aid and no regrouping of students with instructional aides shall be construed as a class for apportionment purposes.

(b) Instructional aides shall be classified employees of the district, and shall be subject to all of the rights, benefits, and burdens of the classified service, except as specified in Section 88005 for “restricted” positions.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1302, Sec. 206. Effective September 25, 1990.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides


text: The community college district shall pay to each person employed as an instructional aide compensation at a rate not less than the minimum hourly rate prescribed by federal law.

history: (History: Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides


text: Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, or any other provisions of law, a community college district may utilize volunteers in the supervision and instruction of students, but any such volunteer shall be subject to the provisions of Section 72401 and this article.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 8. Instructional Aides


text: The provisions of this article shall become applicable upon the execution of an agreement between a county superintendent of schools and a community college district governing board providing for the assumption by the county superintendent of schools of a data processing center operated by the community college district.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 746.)

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text: A community college district classified employee assigned to a data processing center which is transferred to a county superintendent of schools shall, upon the election of the employee to do so, cease to be an employee of the community college district upon the effective date of the agreement transferring the data processing center to the county superintendent of schools and shall thereafter be an employee of the county superintendent of schools and be paid from the county school service fund.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1302, Sec. 207. Effective September 25, 1990.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

article: 9. Assumption by County Superintendent of Schools of the Operation of a Community College District’s Data Processing Center


text: District employees whose status is changed pursuant to this article shall retain all accumulated and unused sick leave, vacation, seniority rights and other rights and benefits which can reasonably be construed to have been an earned right at the time of transfer to the county school service fund.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


text: No employee transferred from community college district service pursuant to this article to a position, the salary of which is paid from the county school service fund, shall suffer any loss of salary at the time of transfer, or as to the future as it relates to his or her status on the salary scale of the county superintendent of schools in effect at that time.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 244. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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text:
The third full week in May is designated as Classified School Employee Week.

All community colleges shall annually observe that week in recognition of classified school employees and the contributions they make to the educational community. The observances required by this section shall be integrated into the regular community college program.

This section shall apply to all colleges under the jurisdiction of any community college district that has adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of Article 3 (commencing with Section 88060), as well as to colleges under the jurisdiction of any district that has not adopted the merit system.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 45, Sec. 2. Effective April 2, 1986.)

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article: 10. Classified School Employee Week

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(a) The Classified Community College Employee Summer Assistance Program is hereby established for participating classified employees of participating community college districts under this section.

(b) The program shall provide a participating classified employee up to one dollar ($1) for each one dollar ($1) that the classified employee has elected to have withheld from the classified employee’s monthly paychecks pursuant to this section.

(c) A community college district may elect to participate in the program. A participating community college district shall notify classified employees, by January 1 during a fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated for purposes of this section, that the community college district has elected to participate in the program for the next academic year. Once a community college district elects to participate in the program and notifies classified employees pursuant to this subdivision, the community college district is prohibited from reversing its decision to participate in the program for the next academic year beginning after the end of a fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated for purposes of this section.

(d) (1) A classified employee who elects to participate in the program shall notify the community college district, in writing, by March 1 during a fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated for purposes of this section, on a form developed by the chancellor’s office that the classified employee wishes to participate in the program for the applicable academic year. The classified employee shall specify the amount to be withheld from their monthly paychecks during the applicable academic year and whether they choose to have the amounts withheld paid out during the summer recess period in either one or two payments. A participating classified employee may elect to have up to 10 percent of the classified employee’s monthly pay withheld during the applicable academic year.

(2) A classified employee is eligible to participate in the program if the classified employee has been employed with the community college district for at least one year at the time the classified employee elects to participate in the program.

(3) (A) A classified employee is eligible to participate in the program if the classified employee is employed by the community college district in the employee’s regular assignment for 11 months or fewer out of a 12-month period. For purposes of determining a classified employee’s total months employed by the community college district, the employing community college district shall exclude any hours worked by the classified employee outside of their regular assignment.

(B) For the 2023–24 and 2024–25 academic years, for purposes of determining a classified employee’s total months employed by the community college district, the employing community college district shall exclude any hours worked by the classified employee as a result of an extension of the academic year directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, if the hours are in addition to the employee’s regular assignment and would prevent the employee from being eligible to participate in the program.

(4) (A) A classified employee is not eligible to participate in the program if the classified employee’s regular annual pay received directly from the community college district is more than sixty-two thousand four hundred dollars ($62,400) for an entire academic year at the time of enrollment. For purposes of determining a classified employee’s regular annual pay received directly from the community college district, the employing community college district shall exclude any pay received by the classified employee during the previous summer recess period.

(B) For purposes of this section, “summer recess period” means the period that regular class sessions are not being held by a community college district during the months of June, July, and August. Pay earned by a classified employee with limited employment during the months of June, July, or August that is not for the summer session shall not be excluded pursuant to this paragraph.

(e) A community college district that elects to participate in the program shall notify the chancellor’s office in writing, by April 1 during a fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated for purposes of this section, on a form developed by the chancellor’s office that it has elected to participate in the program. The community college district shall specify the number of classified employees that have elected to participate in the program and the total estimated amount to be withheld from participating classified employee paychecks for the applicable academic year.

(f) The chancellor’s office shall notify participating community college districts in writing, by May 1 during a fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated for purposes of this section, of the estimated amount of state match funding that a participating classified employee can expect to receive as a result of participating in the program. If the funding provided for purposes of this section is insufficient to provide one dollar ($1) for each one dollar ($1) that has been withheld from participating classified employee monthly paychecks, the chancellor’s office shall notify community college districts of the expected prorated amount of state match funds that a participating classified employee can expect to receive as a result of participating in the program.

(g) Participating community college districts shall notify participating classified employees, by June 1 during a fiscal year in which moneys are appropriated for purposes of this section, of the amount of estimated state match funds that a participating classified employee can expect to receive as a result of participating in the program. After receiving that notification, a classified employee may withdraw their election to participate in the program or reduce the amount to be withheld from their paycheck pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) by notifying the employing community college district no later than 30 days after the start of instruction for the applicable fall term of the academic year.

(h) The community college district shall deposit the amounts withheld from participating classified employee monthly paychecks in accordance with the choices made by each participating classified employee pursuant to subdivision (d) in a separate account.

(i) (1) A classified employee that separates from employment with a community college district during the applicable academic year may request from the community college district any pay withheld from their paycheck pursuant to this section.

(2) A classified employee, due to economic or personal hardship, may request from a community college district any pay withheld from their paycheck pursuant to this section.

(3) A classified employee who requests any pay withheld by the community college district pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) shall not be entitled to receive any state match funds provided pursuant to this section.

(j) Participating community college districts shall request payment from the chancellor’s office, on or before July 31 following the end of an academic year during which the program was operative, on a form developed by the chancellor’s office, for the amount of classified employee pay withheld from the monthly paychecks of participating classified employees and placed in a separate account pursuant to subdivision (h).

(k) The chancellor’s office may use any unexpended balance of moneys appropriated in any prior fiscal year to the chancellor’s office for purposes of this section to provide up to one dollar ($1) for each one dollar ($1) that has been withheld from participating classified employee monthly paychecks.

(l) The chancellor’s office shall apportion funds to participating community college districts within 30 days of receiving a request for payment by the participating community college district pursuant to subdivision (j). The apportionment shall be determined for each community college district by the chancellor’s office on the basis of the amount that has been withheld from the monthly paychecks of participating classified employees and placed in a separate account pursuant to subdivision (h).

(m) If the total amount requested by participating community college districts exceeds the amount appropriated for purposes of this section, the chancellor’s office shall prorate the amount apportioned to participating community college districts accordingly, based on the amounts requested pursuant to subdivision (j).

(n) The participating community college district shall pay participating classified employees the amounts withheld in accordance with the classified employee’s choices, plus the amount apportioned by the chancellor’s office that is attributable to the amount withheld from that classified employee’s paychecks during the applicable academic year. This amount shall be paid to the participating classified employee during the summer recess period, in either one or two payments, in accordance with the classified employee’s option pursuant to subdivision (d).

(o) The state match funding received by participating classified employees pursuant to this section shall not be considered compensation for purposes of determining retirement benefits for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System or the California State Teachers’ Retirement System.

(p) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Chancellor’s office” means the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.

(2) “Month” means 20 days or 4 weeks of 5 days each, including legal holidays.

(3) “Program” means the Classified Community College Employee Summer Assistance Program.

(4) “Regular assignment” means a classified employee’s employment job duties during the academic year, excluding the summer recess period.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 572, Sec. 16. (AB 190) Effective September 27, 2022.)

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(a) The economic and workforce development program shall operate according to all of the following principles:

(1) The program shall be responsive to the needs of employers, workers, and students.

(2) The program shall collaborate with other public institutions, aligning resources to foster cooperation across workforce education and service delivery systems, and building well-articulated career pathways.

(3) Program decisions shall be data driven and evidence based, investing resources and adopting practices on the basis of what works.

(4) The program shall develop strong partnerships with the private sector, ensuring industry involvement in needs assessment, planning, and program evaluation.

(5) The program shall be outcome oriented and accountable, measuring results for program participants, including students, employers, and workers.

(6) The program shall be accessible to employers, workers, and students who may benefit from its operation.

(7) The program shall provide guidance to local educational agencies on the allocation and oversight of apprenticeship training funds, consistent with the rules set by the California Apprenticeship Council for building and construction trades and for firefighters or by the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations for other trades.

(b) The mission of the economic and workforce development program is to do all of the following:

(1) To advance California’s economic growth and global competitiveness through education, training, and services that contribute to continuous workforce improvement.

(2) To advance California’s economic and jobs recovery and sustain economic growth through labor market-aligned education workforce training services, and sector strategies focusing on continuous workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business development, to meet the needs of California’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.

(3) To use labor market information to advise the chancellor’s office and regional community college bodies on the workforce needs of California’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters, in accordance with both of the following:

(A) To the extent possible, the economic and workforce development program shall work with, share information with, and consider the labor market analyses produced by, the Employment Development Department’s Labor Market Information Division and the California Workforce Development Board.

(B) The economic and workforce development program may also use its own resources to bolster and refine these labor market and industry sector and industry cluster analyses to fulfill its mission.

(4) To provide technical assistance and logistical, technical, and communications infrastructure support that engenders alignment between the career technical education programs of the community college system and the needs of California’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.

(5) To collaborate and coordinate investment with other state, regional, or local agencies involved in education and workforce training in California, including, but not necessarily limited to, the California Workforce Development Board, local workforce investment boards, the Employment Training Panel, the State Department of Education, and the Employment Development Department.

(6) To identify, acquire, and leverage community college and other financial and in-kind public and private resources to support economic and workforce development and the career technical education programs of the state’s community colleges.

(7) To work with representatives of business, labor, and professional trade associations to explore and develop alternatives for assisting incumbent workers in the state’s competitive and emerging industry sectors. A key objective is to enable incumbent workers to become more competitive in their region’s labor market, increase competency, and identify career pathways to economic self-sufficiency, economic security, and lifelong access to good-paying jobs.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 704, Sec. 13. (AB 235) Effective September 22, 2018. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, pursuant to Section 88651.)

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chapter: 1. Mission Statement

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(a) The board of governors may award grants and project funds to districts for leadership in accomplishing the mission and goals of the program, provided that funds are appropriated for this purpose in the annual Budget Act. Grants under this section shall be awarded on a competitive basis, as determined by the board of governors and authorized in the annual Budget Act.

(b) (1) The board of governors shall establish an advisory committee for the program and determine the membership pursuant to paragraph (2). The advisory committee shall advise on overall program development, recommend resource deployment, including whether projects should be funded at existing levels, increased, decreased, or terminated, and recommend strategies for regional coordination.

(2) The membership of the advisory committee shall include all of the following: representatives from labor, business, and appropriate state agencies; a faculty representative; a classified employee representative; and one community college chief executive officer representative from each of the regions of the program.

(c) At a minimum, the decision criteria for allocating funds to colleges shall be based on each of the following:

(1) An evaluation of the relevance of the grant to the labor market needs of the state and relevant region’s competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters, or to the state’s need to fill skills gaps and skills shortages in the economy, including skills gaps and shortages at the state and regional level.

(2) An assessment of the past performance of the grantee if the grantee has been awarded other economic and workforce development grants or other state grants, including an assessment of whether the grantee’s previous awards produced project deliverables specified in prior grant applications.

(3) For grants providing direct services to an employer, a group of employers, or an industry sector or industry cluster, an assessment of the purported beneficial impacts of the grant on the relevant businesses, which may include a review of the grant’s purported impacts on any of the following: increased profitability, increased labor productivity, reductions in worker injuries, employer cost savings resulting from improved business processes, improved customer satisfaction, increased employee retention, estimates of new revenue to be generated, sales increases, or new market penetration, as well as information on new products or services developed.

(4) For grants involving direct education and training services provided to workers and students, an assessment of the educational and training goals of the grant, the projected numbers of students and workers served and the projected rates of course and program completion or transfer-readiness, the projected rate of skills attainment for certificates and degrees, and the projected wages and rate of employment placement for those entering the labor market.

(5) For technical assistance and logistical support projects, a concrete enumeration of the ways the project will collaborate with the chancellor’s office to advance sector strategies, regional development, accountability based on performance data, and the adoption of effective workforce and economic development practices.

(d) The chancellor’s office shall provide systemwide oversight and evaluation of the economic and workforce development program, and shall evaluate grant projects and programs to assess whether grantees achieved their stated objectives. The chancellor’s office has the authority to terminate programs for nonperformance.

(e) The chancellor may establish program requirements and performance standards in the administration of the economic and workforce development program, and distribute funds as appropriate to implement the program.

(f) The chancellor may provide technical assistance to community colleges for the purpose of improving the competitiveness of their proposals.

(g) Grant funds shall be awarded for the program on a competitive basis.

(h) The chancellor, in awarding short-term competitive funds, shall take into account colleges in economically distressed urban and rural areas, and colleges that have not previously been successful in the competitive bid process.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 361, Sec. 2. (SB 1402) Effective January 1, 2013. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, pursuant to Section 88651.)

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chapter: 2. General Provisions

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text: This part shall be implemented only during those fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for purposes of this part in the annual Budget Act.

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The following definitions govern the construction of this part:

(a) “Board of governors” means the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.

(b) “Business Resource Assistance and Innovation Network” means the network of projects and programs that comprise the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.

(c) “California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program” and “economic and workforce development program” mean the program.

(d) “Career pathways,” and “career ladders,” or “career lattices” mean an identified series of positions, work experiences, or educational benchmarks or credentials that offer occupational and financial advancement within a specified career field or related fields over time.

(e) (1) “Center” means a comprehensive program of services offered by one or more community colleges to an economic region of the state in accordance with criteria established by the chancellor’s office for designation as an economic and workforce development program center. Center services shall be designed to respond to the statewide strategic priorities pursuant to the mission of the community colleges’ economic and workforce development program, and to be consistent with programmatic priorities, competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters, identified economic development, career technical education, business development, and continuous workforce training needs of a region. Centers shall provide a foundation for a long-term, sustained relationship with businesses, labor, colleges, and other workforce education and training delivery systems, such as local workforce investment boards, in the region.

(2) A center shall support, develop, and deliver direct services to students, businesses, colleges, labor organizations, employees, and employers. For purposes of this subdivision, direct services include, but are not necessarily limited to, data analysis both of labor market information and college performance; intraregion and multiregion sector coordination and logistics; inventory of community college and other assets relevant to meeting a labor market need; curriculum development, curriculum model development, or job task analysis development; articulation of curriculum in a career pathway or career lattice or in a system of stackable credentials; faculty training; calibration to a career readiness or other assessment; assessment administration; career guidance module development or counseling; convenings, such as seminars, workshops, conferences, and training; facilitating collaboration between faculty working in related disciplines and sectors; upgrading, leveraging, and developing technology; and other educational services. The establishment and maintenance of the centers is under the sole authority of the chancellor’s office in order to preserve the flexibility of the system to adapt to labor market needs and to integrate resources.

(f) “Chancellor” means the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.

(g) “Economic security” means, with respect to a worker, earning a wage sufficient to adequately support a family and to, over time, save money for emergency expenses and adequate retirement income, the sufficiency of which is determined considering a variety of factors including household size, the cost of living in the worker’s community, and other factors that may vary by region.

(h) “High-priority occupation” means an occupation that has a significant presence in a targeted industry sector or industry cluster, is in demand by employers, and pays or leads to payment of high wages.

(i) “Industry cluster” means a geographic concentration or emerging concentration of interdependent industries with direct service, supplier, and research relationships, or independent industries that share common resources in a given regional economy or labor market. An industry cluster is a group of employers closely linked by a common product or services, workforce needs, similar technologies, and supply chains in a given regional economy or labor market.

(j) “Industry-driven regional collaborative” means a regional public, private, or other community organizational structure that jointly defines priorities, delivers services across programs, sectors, and in response to, or driven by, industry needs. The industry-driven regional collaborative projects meet the needs and fill gaps in services that respond to regional business, employee, and labor needs. These service-delivery structures offer flexibility to local communities and partners to meet the identified needs in an economic development region. Industry-driven regional collaboratives are broadly defined to allow maximum local autonomy in developing projects responding to the needs of business, industry, and labor.

(k) “Industry sector” means those firms that produce similar products or provide similar services using somewhat similar business processes.

(l) “Initiative” is an identified strategic priority area that is organized statewide, but is a regionally based effort to develop and implement innovative solutions designed to facilitate the development, implementation, and coordination of community college economic development and related programs and services. Each initiative shall be workforce and business development driven by a statewide committee made up of community college faculty and administrators and practitioners and managers from business, labor, and industry. Centers, industry-driven regional collaboratives, and other economic and workforce development programs performing services as a part of the implementation of an initiative shall coordinate services statewide and within regions of the state, as appropriate.

(m) “Job development incentive training” means programs that provide incentives to employers to create entry-level positions in their businesses, or through their suppliers or prime customers, for welfare recipients and the working poor.

(n) “Matching resources” means any combination of public or private resources, either cash or in-kind, derived from sources other than the economic and workforce development program funds appropriated by the annual Budget Act, that are determined to be necessary for the success of the project to which they are applied. The criteria for in-kind resources shall be developed by the board of governors, with advice from the chancellor and the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program Advisory Committee, and shall be consistent with generally accepted accounting practices for state and federal matching requirements. The ratio of matching resources to economic and workforce development program funding shall be determined by the board of governors.

(o) “Performance improvement training” means training delivered by a community college that includes all of the following:

(1) An initial needs assessment process that identifies both training and nontraining issues that need to be addressed to improve individual and organizational performance.

(2) Consultation with employers to develop action plans that address business or nonprofit performance improvements.

(3) Training programs that link individual performance requirements with quantifiable business measures, resulting in demonstrable productivity gains, and, as appropriate, job retention, job creation, improvement in wages, or attainment of wages that provide economic security.

(p) “Program” means the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program established under this part.

(q) “Region” means a geographic area of the state defined by economic and labor market factors containing at least one industry cluster and the cities, counties, or community college districts, or all of them, in the industry cluster’s geographic area. For the purposes of this chapter, “California Community College economic development regions” shall be designated by the board of governors based on factors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:

(1) Regional economic development and training needs of business and industry.

(2) Regional collaboration, as appropriate, among community colleges and districts, and existing economic development, continuous workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business development.

(3) Other state economic development definitions of regions.

(r) “Sector strategies” means prioritizing investments in competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters on the basis of labor market and other economic data that indicate strategic growth potential, especially with regard to jobs and income. Sector strategies focus workforce investment in education and workforce training programs that are likely to lead to high-wage jobs or to entry-level jobs with well-articulated career pathways into high-wage jobs. Sector strategies effectively boost labor productivity or reduce business barriers to growth and expansion stemming from workforce supply problems, including skills gaps, and occupational shortages by directing resources and making investments to plug skills gaps and provide education and training programs for high-priority occupations. Sector strategies may be implemented using articulated career pathways or career lattices and a system of stackable credentials. Sector strategies often target underserved communities, disconnected youth, incumbent workers, and recently separated military veterans. Cluster-based sector strategies focus workforce and economic development on those sectors that have demonstrated a capacity for economic growth and job creation in a particular geographic area. Industry clusters are similar to industry sectors, but the focus is on a geographic concentration of interdependent industries.

(s) “Skills panel” means a collaboration which brings together multiple employers from an industry sector or industry cluster with career technical educators, including, but not limited to, community college career technical education faculty, and other stakeholders which may include workers and organized labor to address common workforce needs. Skills panels assess workforce training and education needs through the identification of assets relevant to industry need, produce curricula models, perform job task analysis, define how curricula articulate into career pathways or career lattices or a system of stackable credentials, calibrate career readiness, develop other assessment tools, and produce career guidance tools.

(t) “Stackable credentials” means a progression of training modules, credentials, or certificates that build on one another and are linked to educational and career advancement.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 76, Sec. 52. (AB 383) Effective January 1, 2014. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, pursuant to Section 88651.)

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text: The California Community Colleges Business Resource Assistance and Innovation Network Trust Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury as a special fund administered by the board of governors. The board of governors may solicit direct contributions for deposit in the fund from various nonstate public and private sources for the purpose of funding the program. Special funds in the trust shall be placed in a surplus money investment account to earn interest. Interest generated by funds deposited in this trust fund shall be reinvested in the fund, and may only be used to fund eligible projects and activities of the program and related board of governors initiatives. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the fund may be expended for purposes of administering grants and contracts for providing services, through the program, to public and private entities.

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(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the programs and services provided through the program shall be flexible and responsive to the needs identified through the statewide and regional planning process. Services shall be demand driven, and delivery structures shall be agile, performance oriented, cost effective, and contribute to regional economic growth and competitiveness. The use of economic and workforce development program centers, local economic development corporations, industry-driven regional collaboratives, and business networks, employers, and service providers shall provide a stable and flexible response mechanism for the identification of training priorities and to focus resources on intensive projects for competitive and emerging industry sectors. These networks shall have the flexibility to meet the demand for new and emerging growth sectors and be formed, modified, eliminated, and reformed for short- or long-term responses customized to the duration of the need. Programs and projects developed and implemented at centers and industry-driven regional collaborative projects shall act as catalysts for future career technical education programs in the system.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that centers shall be established as the long-term structure of the network’s service delivery system. Centers shall provide regional sites to efficiently respond to employer and worker needs, and shall deliver services for the strategic initiative areas pursuant to the mission of the community colleges economic and workforce development program.

(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that industry-driven regional collaboratives perform services as participants of regional networks. Grants by industry-driven regional collaboratives shall provide flexibility for local projects to assess and define their individual project needs. New local programs and equipment shall be key components of these grants. Funding shall not be limited per project, but shall be based on the merit and reasonable cost for the anticipated outcomes and performance of the project. Funding for industry-driven regional collaboratives shall be limited to two consecutive fiscal years.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 5. Centers and Regional Collaboratives

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Economic and workforce development program centers and California Community Colleges participation in industry-driven regional collaboratives may provide any or all of the following services and perform the following functions as participants of networks, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:

(a) Convening skill panels to produce deliverables, such as curriculum models, that contribute to workforce skill development common to competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters within a region.

(b) Development of instructional packages focusing on the technical skill specific to emerging or changing occupations in targeted industry sectors and industry clusters.

(c) Support student or worker evaluation of, and fit for, career paths by articulating how a curriculum model fits within a career pathway or career lattice or system of stackable credentials, relevant career readiness battery scores, and career guidance tools.

(d) Faculty mentorships, faculty and staff development, in-service training, and worksite experience supporting the new curriculum and instructional modes responding to identified regional needs.

(e) Institutional support, professional development, and transformational activities focused on removing systemic barriers to the development of new methods, transition to a flexible and more responsive administration of programs, and the timely and cost-effective delivery of services.

(f) The deployment of new methodologies, modes, and technologies that enhance performance and outcomes and improve cost-effectiveness of service delivery or create new college programs.

(g) One-on-one counseling, seminars, workshops, and conferences that contribute to the achievement of the success of existing businesses and foster the growth of new businesses and jobs in emerging industry clusters.

(h) The delivery of performance-improvement training, which shall be provided on a matching basis to employers to benefit workforce participants. This will promote continuous workforce improvement in identified strategic priority areas, identified industry clusters, or areas targeted in the regional business resource assistance and innovation network plans.

(i) Credit, not-for-credit, and noncredit programs and courses that contribute to workforce skill development for competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters within a region or that focus on addressing a workforce skills gap or occupational shortage.

(j) Subsidized student internships or work-based learning on a cash or in-kind matching basis for program participants in occupational categories identified in competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.

(k) Acquisition of equipment to support the eligible activities and the limited renovation of facilities to accommodate the delivery of eligible services.

(l) Submission of performance data for aggregation by the chancellor’s office.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


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(a) (1) Programs and activities of the Job Development Incentive Training Program shall include a strong partnership with state and local economic development entities, workforce development agencies, community-based organizations, and the private sector. It is the intent of the Legislature that this program provide training on a no-cost or low-cost basis to participating employers who create employment opportunities at an acceptable wage level for the attainment of self-sufficiency by both of the following groups:

(A) Recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(B) Clients determined to be eligible because they are employed at a wage too low to attain self-sufficiency.

(2) Guidelines for the determination of eligibility under this subdivision shall be developed by the chancellor’s office in consultation with the appropriate agencies responsible for collecting appropriate data. A structured career ladder methodology may be implemented in this program area.

(3) Funds received from other eligible programs, including, but not necessarily limited to, programs under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-220) and other applicable programs selected by the chancellor, or a combination of programs, may be used to provide funds to match job development incentive training funds.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the expenditure of funds under this section should lead measurably to the upgrading of highly skilled and technical workers, upgrade opportunities for those who are employed at a wage too low to attain self-sufficiency, and the creation of jobs for new entrants into the workforce.

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text: Annual appropriations for the Job Development Incentive Training Program may be allocated for the purposes of supporting eligible activities if, as a result of the workforce improvement services provided to employers, entry-level positions are created within the industry cluster. Participating employers may receive eligible services such as performance-based training, and other eligible services that stimulate productivity and growth in targeted industrial clusters on a matching basis. Any annual savings from this section shall be available for expenditure for purposes of the Industry-Driven Regional Collaborative Program.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 6. Job Development Incentive Training Program


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Matching fund requirements shall be waived for employers who receive training services through the Job Development Incentive Training Program and who accomplish either of the following:

(a) Create employment opportunities for recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code at an acceptable wage level to attain self-sufficiency.

(b) Create opportunities for individuals working at a low wage to upgrade to a wage adequate to attain self-sufficiency.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


text: Each community college that participates in the Job Development Incentive Training Program shall inventory its local or regional business community, including nonprofit organizations, and identify industry-driven needs and employment opportunities with a goal of attaining self-sufficiency through workforce reentry, continuous employee training, and skills upgrades.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


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(a) The chancellor shall implement performance accountability outcome measures for the economic and workforce development program that provide the Governor, Legislature, and general public with information that quantifies employer and student outcomes for those participating in the program. These performance accountability measures should, to the extent possible, align with the performance accountability measures of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (Public Law 113-128).

(b) The chancellor shall submit a report to the Governor and Legislature on or about March 1 of each year. However, beginning in the 2025–26 fiscal year, the chancellor shall submit this report biennially, on or before March 1, and may submit this report with the report required by paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 88826. A report submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall include, but not be limited to, both of the following:

(1) Sufficient information to ensure the understanding of the magnitude of expenditures, by type of expenditure, including those specified in Section 88625, disaggregated by industry sector or cluster, region, and type of grant.

(2) Data summarizing outcome accountability performance measures required by this section.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 998, Sec. 28. (AB 176) Effective September 30, 2024. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, pursuant to Section 88651.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 7. Reporting

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text: Prior to January 1, 2015, the chancellor shall contract for an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in achieving the specific program goals and objectives set forth in this part. This performance evaluation shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, specific conclusions about the strengths and weaknesses of the program, as well as specific recommendations for strategies to improve the effectiveness of the program. The evaluation shall include an analysis of available outcome accountability performance measures and data for program participants. To the extent feasible, the analysis shall use experimental, quasi-experimental, or controlled case comparison methodology to compare outcome measures for program participants with a suitable control group to assess and isolate the impact of the program on program participants. The chancellor shall provide the findings of the study to the Legislature no later than March 1, 2016. This report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


text: This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2030, deletes or extends that date.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 430, Sec. 1. (AB 3087) Effective January 1, 2025. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, by its own provisions. Note: Repeal affects Part 52.5, commencing with Section 88600.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

chapter: 8. Repeal

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(a) For the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges for a grant program that supports public-private partnerships that will prepare California students for high-skill jobs of the future in technology, manufacturing, and health care.

(b) The grant program shall deliver five core benefits to students:

(1) A rigorous, relevant, and cost-free education in grades 9 to 14, inclusive, focused on the knowledge and skills that students need for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers.

(2) Workplace learning that includes mentoring by industry professionals, worksite visits, speakers, and internships.

(3) Intensive, individualized, academic support by both K–12 and postsecondary faculty within an extended academic year or school day that enables students to progress through the program at their own pace.

(4) An opportunity to earn an associate in science degree in a high-tech field or an associate degree for transfer in a STEM field.

(5) A commitment to students who complete the program to be first in line for a job with participating business partners following completion of the program.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 33, Sec. 45. (AB 1809) Effective June 27, 2018.)

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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(a) The chancellor shall award grants to be expended over a six-year period, to applicants that meet, at a minimum, all of the following conditions:

(1) Applicants are parties to an approved College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership pursuant to Section 76004 of the Education Code that will govern the delivery of the academic program to students and allocation of funding between the local educational agency and the community college district.

(2) Applicants shall demonstrate that the curriculum in grades 9 to 14, inclusive, shall lead to an associate in science degree in a high-tech field or an associate degree for transfer in a STEM field.

(3) Applicants have a signed memorandum of understanding between the CCAP partnership and one or more private businesses in technology, manufacturing, or health care that obligates the businesses to all of the following:

(A) Committing to place every student who successfully completes the program first in line for a job.

(B) Identifying a mentor for every participating student.

(C) Creating an up-to-date skills map for the industry or sector that identifies essential job requirements.

(D) Collaborating with the CCAP partnership to identify the postsecondary two-year degree that will ensure participating students meet industry expectations and to validate the proposed scope and sequence.

(E) Providing workplace visits, speakers, internships, and apprenticeships for participating students.

(F) Collaborating with the CCAP partnership staff to align technical skills and workplace competencies with curriculum, course offerings, and other resources.

(G) Providing dedicated staff to work on the initiative, including an industry liaison who has the authority to coordinate with the CCAP partnership on the business partners’ behalf.

(4) Students will attend classes from grades 9 to 14, inclusive, on a single campus.

(b) The chancellor shall prioritize applicants that will serve students who:

(1) Have been identified as academically or economically at risk for not successfully completing high school or not enrolling in, or succeeding in, college.

(2) Belong to populations that have historically not had access to, or success in, higher education, such as students with disabilities or English language learners.

(c) The chancellor shall award grants in a geographically diverse manner, to the extent possible, and shall not award more than one grant per county.

(d) The chancellor shall require applicants to submit enrollment, performance, and employment data.

(e) The chancellor shall develop and provide guidance to the program, including, but not limited to, appropriate uses of program funds and the manner in which the program will report data to meet the requirements of subdivision (h).

(f) The chancellor shall develop a request for proposal (RFP) process to determine grant awardees. The RFP process shall comply with the requirements of this section.

(g) For the purposes of this section, an applicant is comprised of a regional consortium that includes one or more of each of the following:

(1) A school district or charter school.

(2) A community college district.

(h) No later than January 10, 2025, the chancellor shall submit a report to the Director of Finance and the appropriate budget and policy committees of the Legislature. The report shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

(1) The degree to which grant recipients achieved the objectives in subdivision (a).

(2) The number and percentage of students enrolled in the program who earned a two-year associates degree within four, five, and six years.

(3) The number and percentage of students enrolled in the program who earned an industry-recognized certificate or credential within four, five, and six years.

(4) The number and percentage of students enrolled in the program who gained full-time employment in their area of study or training upon completion of the program.

(5) A range of the starting salaries of program graduates that gained full-time employment.

(6) The number and percentage of students enrolled in the program that enrolled in a four-year degree program upon completion of the program.

(7) It is the intent of the Legislature that the report disaggregate results by student subgroup as identified by Section 52052.

(i) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations made by subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be “General Fund revenues appropriated for community college districts,” as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 41202, for the 2017–18 fiscal year, and included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202, for the 2017–18 fiscal year.

history: (History: Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 497, Sec. 93. (AB 991) Effective January 1, 2020.)

part: 52.7. California STEM Pathways Grant Program

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION


text: This part shall be known, and may be cited, as, the Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) Program.

history: (History: Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 872, Sec. 1. (SB 444) Effective January 1, 2024.)

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As used in this part, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Four-year higher education institution” means a four-year baccalaureate degree program offered at the University of California, the California State University, or an independent institution of higher education, as defined in Section 66010.

(b) “MESA programs” means Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement programs established at community colleges to help underserved and underrepresented students majoring in calculus-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics academic fields who seek to transfer to four-year higher education institutions.

(c) “STEM majors” means calculus-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics academic fields.

part: 52.8. Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) Program

title: 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION