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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5647
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/21/95.
Changing retention of leave
provisions for employees of community and technical colleges.
AN ACT Relating to
retention of sick leave by transferred employees of community and technical colleges;
and amending RCW 28B.50.551.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28B.50.551 and 1991
c 238 s 59 are each amended to read as follows:
The board of trustees
of each college district shall adopt for each community and technical college
under its jurisdiction written policies on granting leaves to employees of the
district and those colleges, including but not limited to leaves for attendance
at official or private institutions and conferences; professional leaves for
personnel consistent with the provisions of RCW 28B.10.650; leaves for illness,
injury, bereavement and emergencies, and except as otherwise in this section
provided, all with such compensation as the board of trustees may prescribe,
except that the board shall grant to all such persons leave with full
compensation for illness, injury, bereavement and emergencies as follows:
(1) For persons under
contract to be employed, or otherwise employed, for at least three quarters,
not more than twelve days per year, commencing with the first day on which work
is to be performed; provisions of any contract in force on June 12, 1980, which
conflict with requirements of this subsection shall continue in effect until
contract expiration; after expiration, any new contract executed between the
parties shall be consistent with this subsection;
(2) Such leave
entitlement may be accumulated after the first three-quarter period of
employment for full time employees, and may be taken at any time;
(3) Leave for illness,
injury, bereavement and emergencies heretofore accumulated pursuant to law,
rule, regulation or policy by persons presently employed by college districts
and community and technical colleges shall be added to such leave accumulated
under this section;
(4) Except as otherwise
provided in this section or other law, accumulated leave under this section not
taken at the time such person retires or ceases to be employed by college
districts or community and technical colleges shall not be compensable;
(5) Accumulated leave
for illness, injury, bereavement and emergencies ((under this section))
shall be transferred from one college district ((or community and technical
college)) to another((, to the college board, to the state
superintendent of public instruction, to)) or between a college district
and the following: Any state agency, any educational service district, ((to))
any school district, or ((to)) any other institution((s of higher
learning of the state)) of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016;
(6) Leave accumulated
by a person in a college district or community and technical college prior to
leaving that district or college may, under the policy of the board of
trustees, be granted to such person when he or she returns to the employment of
that district or college; and
(7)
Employees of the Seattle Vocational Institute are exempt from this section
until July 1, 1993.
