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ID S1327
Bill
Status
4/3/2012
Primary Sponsor
Education Committee
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AI Summary
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Permits board designees to declare a position vacant if a professional employee willfully refuses to acknowledge contract receipt or fails to sign and return it within the required timeframe (minimum 10 days, default 21 days).
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Allows contract delivery by certified mail or electronic means with return receipt acknowledgment, in addition to in-person delivery with signed receipt.
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Requires written evaluations of certificated employees to include at least 50% based on objective student achievement measures for all evaluations conducted after June 30, 2012.
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Limits negotiation subject matter to compensation provided through public funding, requires all negotiation sessions be conducted in open session, and authorizes the State Board of Education to promulgate rules for implementing labor agreement laws.
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Declares an emergency effective upon passage and provides a contingent sunset date if Chapter 96 of the 2011 Laws is rejected by voter referendum in November 2012.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law relating to education to revise provisions relating to delivery of a contract, to provide that a designee of the board may declare a position vacant, to revise provisions relating to a district court order and provisions relating to the district placing an employee on involuntary unpaid leave or unpaid suspension; to eliminate language relating to a reduction in force, to revise provisions relating to a category B contract and to revise a date; to revise a provision relating to certificated employees employed pursuant to a grandfathered renewable contract and to revise provisions relating to reassignment of an administrative employee; to revise provisions relating to final offers of settlement, and to revise provisions relating to the subject matter of negotiations and to provide for rules.
EDUCATION
Last Action
November 2012, if Ch.96, Laws of 2011, is rejected through voter referendum in General Election
4/3/2012