Bill > AB378

This bill expands the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program by adding joint powers authorities (JPAs) consisting solely of school districts and county offices of education to the definition of a local educational agency, thereby allowing such JPAs and their classified employees to participate in the program. The program enables classified school employees who meet certain eligibility requirements to voluntarily have up to 10 percent of their monthly pay withheld during the school year, which will then be matched by state funds and paid back to them during the summer recess period. Eligible employees must have worked at least one year with their educational agency, be employed for 11 months or fewer in a 12-month period, and earn less than $62,400 annually. The bill also includes a technical provision related to the program's funding, specifying that funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the 2023-24 fiscal year and beyond can be encumbered during the year of appropriation and the immediately following fiscal year. Additionally, the bill contains a complex operative clause that coordinates its implementation with potential amendments proposed in other bills (AB 147 and SB 147).

Budget and Finance, Education, Labor and Employment

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