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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 944
BY REPRESENTATIVE HARRISON
SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Eliminates extended sick leave for public school teachers and
employees
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 17:47(C)(3)(b) and to repeal R.S. 17:47(D), 500.2,2
1201(A)(1)(d), 1202, and 1206.2, relative to leave for teachers and other school3
employees; to eliminate provisions which provide relative to extended sick leave for4
teachers and other school employees; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 17:47(C)(3)(b) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:7
ยง47. Sick and personal leave8
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C.10
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(3)12
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(b) In any case in which a secretary, paraprofessional employee, school aide,14
teacher, or superintendent of a special school supplements workers' compensation15
with accumulated or extended sick leave, the amount of sick leave used shall be16
calculated on an hourly basis.17
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Section 2. R.S. 17:47(D), 500.2, 1201(A)(1)(d), 1202, and 1206.2 are hereby19
repealed in their entirety.20 HLS 12RS-1025 ORIGINAL
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Section 3. A request for extended sick leave that was approved and granted prior to1
the effective date of this Act shall be honored.2
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Harrison HB No. 944
Abstract: Eliminates extended sick leave for public school teachers and other school
employees.
Present law authorizes teachers employed by the state special schools and teachers, school
bus operators, and other school employees employed by city, parish, and other local public
school boards to take a maximum of 90 days of extended sick leave in each six-year period
of employment, which may be used for personal illness or illness of an immediate family
member when the employee has no remaining regular sick leave balance. Proposed law
repeals present law but provides that a request for extended sick leave that was approved and
granted prior to the effective date of proposed law shall be honored.
(Amends R.S. 17:47(C)(3)(b); Repeals R.S. 17:47(D), 500.2, 1201(A)(1)(d), 1202, and
1206.2)