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Committee adopts amendment to let LEAs pay unused sick leave to families of any deceased LEA employee
Summary
The House Education Subcommittee added an amendment to HB 656 to permit local education agencies to pay unused sick or annual leave to the designee or beneficiary of a deceased LEA employee (including janitors and cooks); the committee voted unanimously to advance the bill to full Education.
The House Education Subcommittee voted to add amendment 014563 to House Bill 656, widening last year’s policy that allowed payment of unused sick leave to families of deceased teachers so local education agencies may permissively extend the benefit to all LEA employees.
“This amendment clarifies legislation that we passed last year that allowed payment of unused sick leave to the families of deceased teachers … so if an LEA has a janitor, a cook, or whomever, … the school district or LEA can then, if they want to, they may pay the designee or beneficiary of the estate of that deceased employee,” the committee member explaining the amendment said. Committee members asked no substantive questions about the bill’s language or fiscal impact during the subcommittee session.
The clerk reported the committee vote as six ayes and no nays; the chair said HB 656 "moves on to full education." The amendment and bill are permissive (districts may adopt the policy but are not required to do so). The sponsor and committee did not identify a new statewide funding source in committee; implementation would be at local discretion and subject to whatever local budgetary rules a district applies.
Provenance: topic introduced SEG 050; discussion and vote concluded SEG 100.
