California Education Code

§ 44977

EDC § 44977 Effective Jan 1, 1999Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 25 · Ch. 4 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)During each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave, including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed. The school district shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee.

(b)For purposes of subdivision (a):

(1)The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 30, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.