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House Bill 1367




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HB 1367

        By Representative Stabins






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to personnel of the district

  3         school system; amending s. 230.23, F.S.;

  4         requiring district school boards to grant

  5         credit for specified instructional experience

  6         in determining salary schedules; amending s.

  7         231.36, F.S.; requiring notification to

  8         instructional staff on annual contract of

  9         nomination status; providing a requirement when

10         not renominated; providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (5) of section

15  230.23, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, is amended to read:

16         230.23  Powers and duties of school board.--The school

17  board, acting as a board, shall exercise all powers and

18  perform all duties listed below:

19         (5)  PERSONNEL.--Designate positions to be filled,

20  prescribe qualifications for those positions, and provide for

21  the appointment, compensation, promotion, suspension, and

22  dismissal of employees as follows, subject to the requirements

23  of chapter 231:

24         (c)  Compensation and salary schedules.--Adopt a salary

25  schedule or salary schedules to be used as a basis for paying

26  all school employees, such schedules to be arranged, insofar

27  as practicable, so as to furnish incentive for improvement in

28  training and for continued and efficient service and fix and

29  authorize the compensation of school employees on the basis of

30  such schedules.  A district school board, in determining the

31  salary schedule for instructional personnel, shall consider

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HB 1367

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  1  the prior teaching experience of a person who has been

  2  designated state teacher of the year by any state in the

  3  United States and shall grant credit to any newly hired member

  4  of the instructional staff for all previous instructional or

  5  teaching experience in another Florida school district.

  6         Section 2.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section

  7  231.36, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, is redesignated as

  8  paragraph (c), and a new paragraph (b) is added to said

  9  subsection to read:

10         231.36  Contracts with instructional staff,

11  supervisors, and principals.--

12         (1)

13         (b)  The school board of each district shall notify, in

14  writing, each instructional staff member holding an annual

15  contract of his or her nomination status for the subsequent

16  school year.  Written reasons shall be provided to

17  instructional staff who are not renominated by the school

18  board.

19         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1997.

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22                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires district school boards, in determining salary
24    schedules, to grant credit to newly hired instructional
      staff for all previous instructional experience in other
25    Florida school districts. Requires district school boards
      to notify instructional staff on annual contract of their
26    nomination status for the subsequent school year and
      requires written explanation when not renominated.
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