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AB-2293 • 2026

Community colleges: classified employees.

Community colleges: classified employees.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Elhawary
Last action
2026-02-20
Official status
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary does not specify what specific changes will be made to job duty descriptions, only that they are 'nonsubstantive'.

Community Colleges: Classified Employees

This legislation makes minor, nonsubstantive changes to how community college districts define job duties for their classified employees.

What This Bill Does

  • Makes nonsubstantive changes to the requirement that community college boards fix and prescribe the duties of all persons in the classified service and other nonacademic positions.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Community college districts in California
  • Classified employees at community colleges

Terms To Know

classified service
The group of non-academic workers employed by a community college district.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not change existing rules about merit systems or personnel commissions for classified employees.
  • It is unclear what specific changes the bill will make to job duty descriptions.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-20 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

  2. 2026-02-19 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2293, as introduced, Elhawary.
Community colleges: classified employees.
Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions in what is known as the classified service. Existing law establishes procedures through which a community college district may adopt a merit system with respect to its classified employees. Existing law requires a community college district that has a merit system to appoint a personnel commission to prescribe, amend, and interpret rules regarding the merit system.
Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district, including a district that has adopted a merit system, to fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in the classified service and other nonacademic positions of the community college district, except those persons employed as part of a personnel commission’s
staff.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the requirement that the governing board of a community college district fix and prescribe the duties to be performed by all persons in the classified service and other nonacademic positions.

Current Bill Text

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