CA SB259

Amends the definition of "employee" under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA) to explicitly include student employees whose employment is contingent on their status as students.

Removes the previous requirement that student employees' services be unrelated to their educational objectives or that educational objectives be subordinate to employment in order to qualify for employee status.

Extends collective bargaining rights under HEERA to student employees of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and California State University who were previously denied such rights.

Maintains existing collective bargaining rights for student employees who already possessed them prior to this amendment.