California Senate Bill SB150 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 150INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Huff JANUARY 29, 2015 An act to amend Section 45060 of the Education Code, relating to certificated school employees. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 150, as introduced, Huff. Certificated school employees: salary deduction for organization dues. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to reduce a certificated school employee's salary, pursuant to the employee's authorization, to pay the employee's dues in a local or statewide professional organization. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 45060 of the Education Code is amended to read: 45060.  (a)    Except as provided in Section 45061, the governing board of each school district, when drawing an order for the salary payment due to a certificated employee of the  school  district, shall  with or without charge  reduce the order  , with or without charge,  by the amount  which it has been   the employee has  requested in a revocable written authorization  by the employee to deduct  for the purpose of paying the dues of the employee for membership in any local  or statewide  professional organization  or in any statewide professional organization,  or in any other professional organization affiliated or otherwise connected with a statewide professional organization  which   that  authorizes the statewide organization to receive membership dues on its behalf and for the purpose of paying his or her pro rata share of the costs incurred by the  school  district in making the deduction.  No   This  charge shall  not  exceed the actual cost to the  school  district of the dues deduction.  Any   The  revocation of a written authorization shall be in writing and shall be effective commencing with the next pay period.  Unless   (b)     Unless  otherwise provided in an agreement negotiated pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the governing  board shall,   board of a school district,  no later than the 10th day of each pay period for certificated employees,  shall  draw its order upon the funds of the  school  district in favor of the organization designated by the employee for an amount equal to the total of the dues deductions made with respect to that organization for the previous pay period and shall transmit the total amount to that organization no later than the 15th day of each pay period for certificated employees. When timely transmittal of dues payments by a county is necessary for a school district to comply with the provisions of this section, the county shall act in a timely manner. If the employees of a  school  district do not authorize the  governing  board  of the school district  to make a deduction to pay their pro rata share of the costs of making deductions for the payment of dues, the  governing  board  of the school district  shall deduct from the amount transmitted to the organization on whose account the dues payments were deducted the actual costs of making the deduction.  The   (c)     The  revocable written authorization shall remain in effect until expressly revoked in writing by the employee. Whenever there is a change in the amount required for the payment to the organization, the employee organization shall provide the employee with adequate and necessary data on the change at a time sufficiently prior to the effective date of the change to allow the employee an opportunity to revoke the written authorization, if desired. The employee organization shall provide the public school employer with notification of the change at a time sufficiently  prior to   before  the effective date of the change to allow the employer an opportunity to make the necessary adjustments and with a copy of the notification of the change  which   that  has been sent to all concerned employees.  The   (d)     The  governing board  of a school district  shall not require the completion of a new deduction authorization when a dues change has been effected or at any other time without the express approval of the concerned employee organization.