AB-1750 • 2026

School employees: absences due to illness or accident.

Education Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Caloza
Last action: 2026-05-14
Official status: In committee: Held under submission.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide information on how schools and colleges will finance this benefit or what happens if an illness extends beyond five months, leaving these points as open questions.

School Employees: Absences Due to Illness or Accident

This law requires school and community college employees who run out of sick leave due to illness or injury to receive their full salary for an additional period of up to five months.

What This Bill Does

Requires certificated and classified school employees, as well as academic and classified community college employees, who exhaust all available sick leave due to illness or accident to receive their full salary during the subsequent five-month absence.

Who It Names or Affects

Certificated and classified school employees
Academic and classified community college employees

Terms To Know

Certificated employee: A teacher or other professional staff member at a school who has the right to teach based on their qualifications.
Classified employee: An employee in a non-teaching position, such as an office worker or maintenance staff, at a school or community college.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if the illness lasts longer than five months.
It is unclear how schools and colleges will pay for this new benefit.

Bill History

2026-05-14 California Legislative Information
In committee: Held under submission.
2026-05-06 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2026-04-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-23 California Legislative Information
Coauthors revised.
2026-04-16 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
2026-04-14 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
2026-04-13 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended.
2026-04-08 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
2026-03-16 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on P. E. & R., HIGHER ED. and ED.
2026-02-10 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
2026-02-09 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1750, as amended, Caloza.
School
and community college
employees: absences due to illness or accident.
Existing law requires a certificated or classified school
employee, and an academic or classified community college employee,
employee
who exhausts all available sick leave and continues to be absent from duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of 5 months to receive during those 5 months either (1) the difference between the employee’s salary and the sum that is actually paid, or would have been paid, to a substitute employee employed to fill the position during the employee’s absence, or (2) at least 50% of the employee’s regular salary during the period of the absence.
This bill would require a certificated or classified school
employee, and an academic or classified community college employee,
employee
who exhausts all available sick leave and continues to be absent from duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of 5 months to instead receive the employee’s full salary during those 5 months. The bill would make numerous related conforming and clarifying changes.

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