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Panel advances bill to create paid pregnancy leave for educators amid fiscal concerns
Summary
AB 65, which would provide paid pregnancy leave for California educators and is cosponsored by the California Teachers Association, passed out of the Assembly Education Committee and will go to Higher Education. Supporters described recruitment and retention benefits; school finance groups urged caution without a dedicated funding source.
The Assembly Education Committee voted to pass AB 65 to the Assemblys Higher Education Committee, advancing a proposal to create paid pregnancy leave for California public school educators.
Majority Leader Aguirre Curry, the bills sponsor, said the current practice forces pregnant educators to exhaust accumulated sick leave and, in some cases, to pay for substitutes or accept differential pay that leaves them financially strained. She cited CalSTRS data presented in testimony showing women educators on average receive significantly less retirement service credit because they exhaust sick leave after childbearing and related medical leave.
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