Senate Bill No. 51–Committee on Human Resources


and Facilities

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AN ACT relating to educational personnel; authorizing school districts, in determining the

salaries of certain teachers, to give credit to those 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:

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

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

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

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

2. Each year when determining the salary of a teacher who holds

certification issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching

Standards, a school district shall add 5 percent to the salary that the teacher

would otherwise receive in 1 year for his classification on the schedule of

salaries for the school district if:

(a) On or before September 15 of the school year, the teacher has

submitted evidence satisfactory to the school district of his current

certification; and

(b) The teacher is assigned by the school district to provide classroom

instruction during that school year.

No increase in salary may be given during a particular school year to a

teacher who submits evidence of certification after September 15 of that

school year. Once a teacher has submitted evidence of such certification to

the school district, the school district shall retain the evidence in its records,

as applicable, for future school years. An increase in salary given in

accordance with this subsection is in addition to any other increase to which

the teacher may otherwise be entitled.

3. In determining the salary of a licensed teacher who is employed by a

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

school district in this state, the present employer shall, except as otherwise

provided in subsection [4:] 5:

  1. (a) Give the teacher the same credit for previous teaching service as he
  1. was receiving from his former employer at the end of his former
  1. employment; and
  1. (b) Give [him] the teacher credit for his final year of service with his
  1. former employer, if credit for that service is not included in credit given
  1. pursuant to paragraph (a).
  1. 4. A school district may give the credit required by subsection 3 for
  1. previous teaching service earned in another state if the commission has
  2. approved the standards for licensing teachers of that state. The
  1. commission shall adopt regulations that establish the criteria by which
  1. the commission will consider the standards for licensing teachers of other
  1. states for the purposes of this subsection. The criteria may include,
  1. without limitation, whether the commission has authorized reciprocal
  1. licensure of educational personnel from the state under consideration.

5. This section does not:

  1. (a) Require a school district to allow a teacher more credit for previous
  1. teaching service than the maximum credit for teaching experience provided
  1. for in the schedule of salaries established by it for its licensed personnel.
  1. (b) Permit a school district to deny a teacher credit for his previous
  1. teaching service on the ground that the service differs in kind from the
  1. teaching experience for which credit is otherwise given by the school
  1. district.
  1. [5.] 6. As used in this section, "previous teaching service" means the
  1. total of:
  1. (a) Any period of teaching service for which a teacher received credit
  1. from his former employer at the beginning of his former employment; and

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

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

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

July 1, 2000.

Sec. 3. The commission on professional standards in education shall

adopt the regulations required by the amendatory provisions of section 1 of

this act on or before January 1, 2000.

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

effective upon passage and approval.

2. Section 1 of this act becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 1999,

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

purposes.

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