Bill Text: CA AB2735 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Public employees: unused leave credit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2735 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2735-Introduced.html

---

BILL NUMBER: AB 2735	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 19849.17 to the Government Code, relating to
public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2735, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Public employees: unused
leave credit.
    Existing law authorizes the Department of Human Resources, with
respect to each state officer and employee who either is excluded
from the definition of state employee by specified law, or is a
nonelected officer or employee of the executive branch of government
who is not a member of the civil service, to provide for vacation,
sick leave, annual leave, and bereavement leave benefits, including
the lump-sum payment of any amount of accumulated leave. Existing
regulations of the department authorize, upon an annual determination
by the department whether or not a buy-back will be offered,
prescribed buy-back of unused leave credit by managerial,
supervisory, confidential, excluded, and related employees, including
annual caps of 80 hours for managerial employees and 40 hours for
nonmanagerial employees.
   This bill would authorize certain of those employees, upon the
department's annual determination, to elect annually to be paid at
their regular rate of pay for up to 80 hours of eligible unused leave
credit. The bill would require the department to determine the date
of eligibility and conditions of buy-back and the period for
application.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19849.17 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   19849.17.  (a) Upon the annual determination by the Department of
Human Resources whether or not a buy-back of unused leave credit will
be offered, employees designated as supervisory, confidential, or
excluded pursuant to subdivision (c), (f), or (g) of Section 3513 and
employees designated as managerial pursuant to subdivision (e) of
Section 3513 or Section 18801.1 may annually elect to be paid at
their regular rate of pay for up to 80 hours of unused leave credit.
For the purposes of buy-back, eligible leave may be a combination of
vacation leave, annual leave, personal leave, personal holiday, or
holiday credit.
   (b) The Department of Human Resources shall determine the date of
eligibility and conditions of buy-back and the period during which
application for buy-back will be accepted.