Assembly Bill No. 380–Assemblymen Bache, Giunchigliani, Williams, Anderson, Parnell, Berman, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, de Braga, Freeman, Gibbons, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Mortenson, Oceguera, Parks, Smith, Tiffany and Von Tobel

 

Joint Sponsors: Senators Carlton and Amodei

 

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AN ACT relating to educational personnel; requiring boards of trustees of school districts to place a teacher who has been employed by another school district in this state on the salary schedule in a classification that is commensurate with the level of education acquired by the teacher; requiring boards of trustees of school districts to give an administrator who has been employed by another school district in this state credit for his previous administrative service and place him on the salary schedule in a classification that is comparable to his former classification; revising provisions governing the employment status of certain postprobationary employees who voluntarily leave their employment; 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 the teacher has been employed by another school

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

 provided in subsection [5:] 6:

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

 was receiving from his former employer at the end of his former

 employment; [and]

   (b) Give the teacher credit for his final year of service with his former

employer, if credit for that service is not included in credit given pursuant

 to paragraph (a)[.] ; and

   (c) Place the teacher on the schedule of salaries of the school district

 in a classification that is commensurate with the level of education

 acquired by the teacher, as set forth in the applicable negotiated

 agreement with the present employer.

   4.  A school district may give the credit required by subsection 3 for

 previous teaching service earned in another state if the commission has

 approved the standards for licensing teachers of that state. The

 commission shall adopt regulations that establish the criteria by which the

 commission will consider the standards for licensing teachers of other

 states for the purposes of this subsection. The criteria may include, without

 limitation, whether the commission has authorized reciprocal licensure of

 educational personnel from the state under consideration.

   5.  In determining the salary of a licensed administrator, other than

 the superintendent of schools, who is employed by a school district after

 the administrator has been employed by another school district in this

 state, the present employer shall, except as otherwise provided in

 subsection 6:

   (a) Give the administrator the same credit for previous administrative

 service as he was receiving from his former employer, at the end of his

 former employment;

   (b) Give the administrator credit for his final year of service with his

 former employer, if credit for that service is not otherwise included in

 the credit given pursuant to paragraph (a); and

   (c) Place the administrator on the schedule of salaries of the school

 district in a classification that is comparable to the classification the

 administrator had attained on the schedule of salaries of his former

 employer.

   6.  This section does not:

   (a) Require a school district to allow a teacher or administrator more

 credit for previous teaching or administrative service than the maximum

 credit for teaching or administrative experience provided for in the

 schedule of salaries established by it for its licensed personnel.

   (b) Permit a school district to deny a teacher or administrator credit for

 his previous teaching or administrative service on the ground that the

 service differs in kind from the teaching or administrative experience for

 which credit is otherwise given by the school district.

   [6.] 7.  As used in this section [, “previous] :

   (a) “Previous administrative service” means the total of:

     (1) Any period of administrative service for which an administrator

 received credit from his former employer at the beginning of his former

 employment; and

     (2) His period of administrative service in his former employment.

   (b) “Previous teaching service” means the total of:

   [(a)] (1) Any period of teaching service for which a teacher received

 credit from his former employer at the beginning of his former

 employment; and

   [(b)] (2) His period of teaching service in his former employment.

   Sec. 2.  NRS 391.31965 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   391.31965  [Any] Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a

 postprobationary employee of a school district [of Nevada who is] in this

 state:

   1.  Voluntarily leaves his employment; and

   2.  Is, within 5 years after the date on which he left that employment,

 employed by [another] any school district in this state in a position that is

 comparable to the position in which he attained his postprobationary

 status,

he must be allowed to continue as a postprobationary employee and must

 not be required to serve the probationary period required by subsection 1

 of NRS 391.3197. This section does not apply to a postprobationary

 employee who voluntarily leaves his employment during the pendency of

 a proceeding for the suspension, demotion, dismissal or refusal to

 reemploy the postprobationary employee.

   Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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