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Under current law, state employees who are also legislators can take leave to attend legislative sessions and meetings, but that leave is unpaid unless their employer voluntarily agrees to pay them anyway; teachers who serve as legislators have no similar guaranteed leave right in state law. This bill would require state agencies to grant these employees paid leave for official legislative days, and would require school districts and charter schools to create a paid leave policy for teacher-legislators as well, with the requirement that a legislator use this leave for all the time they're away from their job during the general session. In exchange for using this paid leave, a legislator would give up their regular legislative salary and would not earn retirement credit or contributions through their legislative service for those days, although their retirement benefits from their regular teaching or state job would continue uninterrupted. The bill would also allow state agencies and school districts to seek reimbursement from the Legislature for the cost of this paid leave, up to the amount the Legislature saves by not paying salaries and retirement contributions to legislators who use the leave.