HB435 Summary

• Prohibits superintendents, principals, supervisors, and board members from taking any direct or indirect role in hiring relatives.

• Bars applicants from being hired into positions where their immediate supervisor would be a relative, effective upon the bill's passage.

• Allows hiring of applicants with relatives in their chain of command if the relative is not the immediate supervisor and had no involvement in the hiring decision.

• Prohibits relatives from evaluating performance, determining compensation, or setting employment terms for subordinate relatives.

• Grants other job applicants standing to file declaratory judgment actions within 21 days if a relative is hired in violation of these provisions; court may void the hire and require re-advertisement of the position.