CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5647

 

                   Chapter 119, Laws of 1995

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

 

 

          Transferred community and technical college

               employees‑-Retention of sick leave

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/23/95

Passed by the Senate March 9, 1995

  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

 

 

 

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 10, 1995

  YEAS 94   NAYS 2

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5647 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

  CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved April 20, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 20, 1995 - 1:11 p.m.

 

 

 

    MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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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 Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Bauer, Wood, Kohl, Drew, Haugen and Winsley; by request of State Board for Community and Technical Colleges)

 

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.


    Passed the Senate March 9, 1995.

    Passed the House April 10, 1995.

Approved by the Governor April 20, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 20, 1995.


 


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