Senate Bill No. 51–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities

Prefiled January 27, 1999

(On Behalf of Legislative Committee on Education)

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Referred to Committee on Human Resources and Facilities

 

SUMMARY—Requires school districts to give teachers credit for out-of-state teaching service in determining salaries. (BDR 34-251)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to educational personnel; requiring school districts, in determining the salaries of teachers, to give credit under certain circumstances to teachers for previous teaching service earned in another state; requiring the commission on professional standards in education to adopt regulations for approval of the standards for licensing teachers of other states; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 391.160 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 391.160 1. The salaries of teachers and other employees must be

1-3 determined by the character of the service required. A school district shall

1-4 not discriminate between male and female employees in the matter of salary.

1-5 2. In determining the salary of a licensed teacher who is employed by a

1-6 school district after [having] the teacher has been employed by another

1-7 school district in this state [,] or has been employed as a licensed teacher

1-8 in good standing during the immediately preceding 2 years in another

1-9 state that has standards for licensing teachers which have been approved

1-10 by the commission pursuant to subsection 3, the present employer shall,

1-11 except as otherwise provided in subsection [3:] 4:

1-12 (a) Give the teacher the same credit for previous teaching service as he

1-13 was receiving from his former employer at the end of his former

1-14 employment; and

2-1 (b) Give [him] the teacher credit for his final year of service with his

2-2 former employer, if credit for that service is not included in credit given

2-3 pursuant to paragraph (a).

2-4 3. A school district shall give the credit required by subsection 2 for

2-5 previous teaching service earned in another state only if the commission

2-6 has approved the standards for licensing teachers of that state. The

2-7 commission shall adopt regulations that establish the criteria by which

2-8 the commission will consider the standards for licensing teachers of other

2-9 states for the purposes of this section. The criteria may include, without

2-10 limitation, whether the commission has authorized reciprocal licensure of

2-11 educational personnel from the state under consideration.

2-12 4. This section does not:

2-13 (a) Require a school district to allow a teacher more credit for previous

2-14 teaching service than the maximum credit for teaching experience provided

2-15 for in the schedule of salaries established by [it] the school district for its

2-16 licensed personnel.

2-17 (b) Permit a school district to deny a teacher credit for his previous

2-18 teaching service on the ground that the service differs in kind from the

2-19 teaching experience for which credit is otherwise given by the school

2-20 district.

2-21 [4.] 5. As used in this section, "previous teaching service" means the

2-22 total of:

2-23 (a) Any period of teaching service for which a teacher received credit

2-24 from his former employer at the beginning of his former employment; and

2-25 (b) His period of teaching service in his former employment.

2-26 Sec. 2. The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to the

2-27 salaries of teachers who are hired by a school district in this state before

2-28 July 1, 2000.

2-29 Sec. 3. The commission on professional standards in education shall

2-30 adopt the regulations required by the amendatory provisions of section 1 of

2-31 this act on or before January 1, 2000.

2-32 Sec. 4. 1. This section and sections 2 and 3 of this act become

2-33 effective upon passage and approval.

2-34 2. Section 1 of this act becomes effective upon passage and approval

2-35 for the purpose of adopting regulations and on July 1, 2000, for all other

2-36 purposes.

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