NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/6/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1175
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Fields and Pabon, Duran, Exum, Fischer,
      Foote, Ginal, Hamner, Hullinghorst, Labuda, Lebsock, Lee, McCann,
      Melton, Mitsch Bush, Moreno, Rosenthal, Ryden, Salazar, Schafer, Tyler,
      Vigil, Williams, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Johnston, Aguilar, Guzman, Kefalas, Kerr, Nicholson,
      Schwartz, Steadman, Todd, Ulibarri.
      
      
      Concerning studying strategies for successful ongoing
           recruitment of minority teachers in public schools, and, in
           connection therewith, making and reducing appropriations.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 22-2-505 as
      follows:
      
           22-2-505.  Minority teacher recruitment - legislative declaration
      - study - report. (1)  The general assembly finds and declares that:
      
           (a)  Diversity of teachers in K-12 classrooms is important
      not only because it helps provide positive role models for
      students but also because it offers a broader cultural
      understanding of learning strategies and needs;
      
           (b)  The most recent data for Colorado shows that while
      approximately forty-four percent of students in Colorado are
      minorities, only twelve percent of teachers are minorities; and
      
           (c)  Statewide, the number of minority teachers has not kept
      up with population growth and changes in student diversity.
      
           (2)  The general assembly therefore declares that it is a
      matter of statewide concern to study and develop strategies to
      increase and improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention
      of high quality minority teachers in Colorado's public school
      system.
      
           (3)  The department shall study and develop strategies to
      increase and improve the recruitment, preparation, development,
      and retention of high-quality minority teachers in elementary
      and secondary schools in Colorado. On or before December 1,
      2014, the department shall prepare a report on its findings,
      including current statewide and district demographics and 
      recommendations, and submit it to the office of the governor, the
      state board of education, and the education committees of the
      house of representatives and senate, or any successor
      committees. The department shall present the report on its
      findings to the education committees of the house of
      representatives and senate, or any successor committees, on or
      before January 30, 2015.
      
           (4)  This act shall be known as "Aliyah's Law".
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation - adjustments to 2014 long bill.
      (1)  For the implementation of this act, the general fund appropriation made
      in the annual general appropriation act to the controlled maintenance trust
      fund created in section 24-75-302.5 (2) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, for
      the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, is decreased by $50,000.
      
           (2)  In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby
      appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund, not otherwise
      appropriated, to the department of education, for the fiscal year beginning
      July 1, 2014, the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
      to be allocated to grant programs, distributions, and other assistance for the
      implementation of this act.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO