SB2367 Summary

• Shifts Downstate Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) normal costs to local school districts incrementally starting State fiscal year 2014 (0.5%), reaching 9.0% by 2023, conditional on State maintaining full funding for specified school mandates.

• Prohibits State Board of Education and Capital Development Board from requiring project labor agreements for school construction projects; allows school districts to exempt school construction projects from prevailing wage requirements by board resolution.

• Repeals the Driver's Education Act and removes mandatory driver education course requirements from vehicle code provisions.

• Eliminates restrictions on school districts contracting with third parties for non-instructional services and reduces advance notice requirements from 90 days to 30 days.

• Prohibits school districts from entering into, amending, or renewing collective bargaining agreements concerning use of technology to deliver educational programs and the staffing to provide such technology.