Missouri HB 1133: Changes provisions relating to teacher career plans

Bill Text

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1133
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1415H.02C DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 168.500 and 168.515, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
relating to teacher career plans.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 168.500 and 168.515, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections
2 enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 168.500 and 168.515, to read as follows:
168.500. 1. For the purpose of providing career pay, which shall be a salary supplement,
2 for public school teachers, which for the purpose of sections 168.500 to 168.515 shall include
3 classroom teachers, librarians, school counselors and certificated teachers who hold positions
4 as school psychological examiners, parents as teachers educators, school psychologists, special
5 education diagnosticians and speech pathologists, and are on the district salary schedule, there
6 is hereby created and established a career advancement program which shall be known as the
7 "Missouri Career Development and Teacher Excellence Plan", hereinafter known as the "career
8 plan or program". Participation by local school districts in the career advancement program
9 established under this section shall be voluntary. The career advancement program is a matching
10 fund program. The general assembly may make an annual appropriation to the excellence in
11 education fund established under section 160.268 for the purpose of providing the state's portion
12 for the career advancement program. The "Career Ladder Forward Funding Fund" is hereby
13 established in the state treasury. Beginning with fiscal year 1998 and until the career ladder
14 forward funding fund is terminated pursuant to this subsection, the general assembly may
15 appropriate funds to the career ladder forward funding fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of
16 section 33.080 to the contrary, moneys in the fund shall not be transferred to the credit of the
17 general revenue fund at the end of the biennium. All interest or other gain received from
18 investment of moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. All funds deposited in the fund
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended
to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

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19 shall be maintained in the fund until such time as the balance in the fund at the end of the fiscal
20 year is equal to or greater than the appropriation for the career ladder program for the following
21 year, at which time all such revenues shall be used to fund, in advance, the career ladder program
22 for such following year and the career ladder forward funding fund shall thereafter be terminated.
23 2. The department of elementary and secondary education, at the direction of the
24 commissioner of education, shall study and develop model career plans which shall be made
25 available to the local school districts. These state model career plans shall:
26 (1) Contain three steps or stages of career advancement;
27 (2) Contain a detailed procedure for the admission of teachers to the career program;
28 (3) Contain specific criteria for career step qualifications and attainment. These criteria
29 shall clearly describe the minimum number of professional responsibilities required of the
30 teacher at each stage of the plan and shall include reference to classroom performance
31 evaluations performed pursuant to section 168.128. The criteria may include, but shall not
32 be limited to, teacher externships as provided in section 168.025;
33 (4) Be consistent with the teacher certification process recommended by the Missouri
34 advisory council of certification for educators and adopted by the department of elementary and
35 secondary education;
36 (5) Provide that public school teachers in Missouri shall become eligible to apply for
37 admission to the career plans adopted under sections 168.500 to 168.515 after [five] two years
38 of public school teaching in Missouri. All teachers seeking admission to any career plan shall,
39 as a minimum, meet the requirements necessary to obtain the first renewable professional
40 certificate as provided in section 168.021;
41 (6) Provide procedures for appealing decisions made under career plans established
42 under sections 168.500 to 168.515.
43 3. School district career plans shall recognize additional responsibilities and
44 volunteer efforts by teachers in formulating criteria for career ladder admission and stage
45 achievement. Such additional responsibilities and volunteer efforts shall be required to
46 occur outside of compensated hours and may include, but shall not be limited to:
47 (1) Serving as a coach, supervisor, or organizer for any extracurricular activity for
48 which the teacher does not already receive additional compensation;
49 (2