First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 13-0522.01 Julie Pelegrin x2700 HOUSE BILL 13-1073
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Landgraf,
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Education
 
 
 
 Appropriations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning waiver of the requirement that a hiring school
            district grant nonprobationary status to a teacher
            with effective ratings who has obtained
            nonprobationary status in another school district.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Under current law, if a teacher who has nonprobationary status in
       one school district applies to teach in another school district and the
       teacher can show 2 years of positive effectiveness ratings on his or her
       performance evaluations, the new school district can hire the teacher only
       if it gives him or her nonprobationary status. The bill allows the teacher
       to waive this requirement so that the new school district can hire the
       teacher and give him or her probationary status.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, amend 22-63-203.5
       as follows:
            22-63-203.5.  Nonprobationary portability. (1)  Beginning with
       the 2014-15 school year, a nonprobationary teacher, except for a
       nonprobationary teacher who has had two consecutive performance
       evaluations with an ineffective rating, who is employed by a school
       district and is subsequently hired by a different school district may
       provide to the hiring school district evidence of his or her student
       academic growth data and performance evaluations for the prior two
       years for the purposes of retaining nonprobationary status. If, upon
       providing such the data, the nonprobationary teacher can show two
       consecutive performance evaluations with effectiveness ratings in good
       standing, he or she shall be granted the hiring school district shall
       grant the teacher nonprobationary status in the hiring school district.
            (2)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of
       this section, a nonprobationary teacher may waive the
       provisions of this section, in which case the school district may
       grant the teacher probationary status in the hiring school
       district.
            SECTION 2.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.