20250AB__229399INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-19 2025 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Elhawary LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Elhawary

An act to amend

Section of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. public postsecondary education Community colleges: classified employees. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions in what is known as the classified service. Existing law establishes procedures through which a community college district may adopt a merit system with respect to its classified employees.

Existing law requires a community college district that has a merit system to appoint a personnel commission to prescribe, amend, and interpret rules regarding the merit system. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district, including a district that has adopted a merit system, to fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in the classified service and other nonacademic positions of the community college district, except those persons employed as part of a personnel commission’s staff.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the requirement that the governing board of a community college district fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in the classified service and other nonacademic positions. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Education Code is amended to read: 88009. (

a) The governing board of a community college district shall fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in the classified service and other nonacademic positions of the community college district, except those persons employed as a part of a personnel commission’s staff as provided in

Article 3 (commencing with

Section 88060). This</xhtml:p>"?> (

b) This

section shall apply to community college districts that have adopted the merit system in the same manner and effect as if it were a part of

Article 3 (commencing with

Section 88060).