05 LC 33
0841S
The
House Committee on Education offers the following substitute to HB
543:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 20-2-850 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to sick leave for teachers and other public school personnel, so as to provide
for the donation of sick leave from an employee of a local board of education to
his or her spouse who is also an employee of the local board education for
certain purposes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws;
and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 20-2-850 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sick
leave for teachers and other public school personnel, is amended by striking
subsection (c) and inserting in its place a new subsection to read as
follows:
"(c)(1)
The sick leave and the accumulation of unused sick leave and the payments for
unused sick leave provided for by this part shall be subject to subsection (g)
of Code Section 20-2-182, but this part shall not be construed so as to prohibit
local boards of education from adopting policies relative to sick leave and the
accumulation of unused sick leave and payments for unused sick leave which are
supplemental to this part, provided the cost of implementing and maintaining any
such supplemental policies shall be paid entirely from local funds.
(2)
A local board of education may establish and set policies and procedures for a
sick leave bank or pool of voluntarily contributed employee sick leave days.
Participating employees shall make equal contributions to the bank or pool. Such
employees may draw sick leave days from the bank or pool as provided by adopted
local board of education policy. Any other provisions of this part or any other
laws to the contrary notwithstanding, state allotted sick leave days funded
pursuant to the provisions of subsection (g) of Code Section 20-2-182 may be
contributed to or withdrawn from a local board of education sick leave bank or
pool subject to the following requirements:
(A)
Each employee may contribute only up to a maximum of 45 state funded sick leave
days to the bank or pool, but each employee may contribute as many locally
funded sick leave days as provided for by local board of education policy;
and
(B)
Each employee shall be entitled to withdraw from the bank or pool as many state
and locally funded sick leave days as provided for by local board of education
policy.
(3)
Local boards of education shall maintain for each employee an accurate,
complete, and up-to-date record of all state and locally funded sick leave days
contributed to and withdrawn from the sick leave bank or pool, and such record
shall show a separate accounting for state funded and locally funded sick leave
days.
(4)
Local boards of education, which establish sick leave banks pursuant to
paragraph (2) of this subsection, shall allow an employee of a local board to
donate up to ten sick leave days to his or her spouse if such spouse is also an
employee of the local board for purposes of maternity leave, illness, illness of
a family member, or death of a family
member."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.