Addresses compensation reporting challenges and other concerns encountered by employers, members and CalSTRS staff by simplifying sections of the Teachers’ Retirement Law relating to creditable compensation and creditable service, effective upon a date determined by the CalSTRS board and no later than July 1, 2027.

Requires employing entities of certificated and classified employees to honor an employee’s request to transfer leave of absence for illness or injury at any time during the employee’s employment with the subsequent employing entity. Also removes the requirement that employees who have terminated employment must accept a new covered position within the next school year to qualify for sick leave transfer. Requires unused sick leave to be transferred between employers in days, not hours, and specifies information that must be shared with the transfer. Finally, specifies these provisions apply to charter schools, county offices of education and state special schools.

Makes minor, technical and conforming changes to the Teachers’ Retirement Law to facilitate efficient administration of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan (plan), which includes the Defined Benefit (DB) Program, the Defined Benefit Supplement Program and the Cash Balance Benefit Program. Also makes various minor, technical and conforming changes in the County Employees Retirement Law and the law related to the Judges’ Retirement System II.

Provides for up to 14 weeks of fully paid leave for California public school employees for pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, termination of pregnancy or recovery from those conditions. Additionally, prohibits a leave of absence for any of these reasons from being deducted from other leaves of absence available to the employee.