Classified employees: Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund.

(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district not paying the annual or monthly salaries of persons employed by the school district in 12 equal monthly payments to withhold, upon election by the individual employee, a designated amount from each payment made to that employee. This bill, notwithstanding the existing law referenced above, commencing with the 2018–19 school year, would authorize certain classified employees of school districts that do not pay the annual or monthly salaries of their classified employees in 12 equal monthly payments to participate in the Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund. The bill would require school districts to deposit the amounts withheld from the paychecks of a participating classified employee in accordance with that employee's choices in an account within its general fund, to be known as the Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund. The bill would require the State Department of Education to apportion moneys to each school district with a classified employee who has opted to participate in the fund. The bill would specify that the apportionment would be in the amount of $2 for each $1, up to the equivalent of the amount paid to the classified employee during 80 hours of employment, or 10 days of employment, whichever is greater, during the school year, that has been deposited in the school district's Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund. The bill would require the school district to pay the participating classified employee from the Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund the amounts withheld in accordance with the employee's choices, plus the amount apportioned by the department that is attributable to the amount withheld from that employee's paychecks during the school year, as specified. Because this bill would impose new duties on school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.