HLS 202ES-317 ENGROSSED
2020 Second Extraordinary Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 25
BY REPRESENTATIVE GADBERRY
TEACHERS: Requests that the State Civil Service Commission establish the same or
substantially similar sick leave benefits for classified employees serving as teaching
staff within the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, office of juvenile justice, as
those provided for public school teachers injured or disabled while acting in their
official capacity
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To urge and request the State Civil Service Commission to establish the same or
3 substantially similar benefits as those provided in R.S. 17:1201(C)(1) and (D)(1),
4 relative to sick leave benefits for public school teachers injured or disabled while
5 acting in their official capacity, for classified employees serving as teaching staff
6 within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of juvenile justice.
7 WHEREAS, present law (R.S. 17:1201(C)(1) and (D)(1)) provides relative to sick
8leave benefits afforded to a member of the teaching staff of a public school who, while
9acting in his official capacity, is injured or disabled either as the result of assault and battery
10or as the result of physical contact with a student while providing physical assistance to
11prevent danger or risk of injury to the student, including that he shall receive sick leave
12without reduction in pay and without reduction in accrued sick leave days; and
13 WHEREAS, for purposes of present law, teachers are defined as those employed by
14city, parish, or other local public school boards; and
15 WHEREAS, those serving as teaching staff within the Department of Public Safety
16and Corrections, office of juvenile justice, do not fall under this definition and are thus not
17afforded the same sick leave benefits when injured or disabled on the job as their
18counterparts who are employed by local school boards; and
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HCR NO. 25
1 WHEREAS, personnel policies applicable to employees of state agencies are the
2responsibility of the State Civil Service Commission.
3 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
4urge and request the State Civil Service Commission to establish the same or substantially
5similar benefits as those provided in R.S. 17:1201(C)(1) and (D)(1), relative to sick leave
6benefits for public school teachers injured or disabled while acting in their official capacity,
7for classified employees serving as teaching staff within the Department of Public Safety and
8Corrections, office of juvenile justice.
9 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
10director of the Department of State Civil Service.
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)]
HCR 25 Engrossed 2020 Second Extraordinary Session Gadberry
Requests that the State Civil Service Commission establish the same or substantially similar
sick leave benefits for classified employees serving as teaching staff within the Dept. of
Public Safety and Corrections, office of juvenile justice, as those provided for public school
teachers injured or disabled while acting in their official capacity.
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