Second Regular Session Seventieth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO INTRODUCED LLS NO. 16-0806.01 Julie Pelegrin x2700 HOUSE BILL 16-1162 HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Navarro, SENATE SPONSORSHIP (None), House Committees Senate Committees Education A BILL FOR AN ACT Concerning requiring advance public notice of salary increases for administrators of low-performing public education entities. 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.) If the governing board of a school district or a public school is considering a salary increase for the superintendent of the school district or the principal or vice principal of the public school and the school district or public school is operating under a priority improvement plan or a turnaround plan, the bill requires publication of notice of the proposal at least 7 days before the meeting at which the governing board will discuss the salary increase proposal. If the governing board of the school district or the public school decides to grant the salary increase, the governing board must publish notice of the salary increase at least 7 days before the meeting at which the governing board will take action on the salary increase. The governing board must allow public testimony at the meeting at which it takes action on the salary increase. Each of the required notices must be published in a publication that is competent to publish legal notices. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-32-109, add (1) (f) (IV) as follows: 22-32-109. Board of education - specific duties. (1) In addition to any other duty required to be performed by law, each board of education shall have and perform the following specific duties: (f) (IV) If the board of education of a school district that is accredited with priority improvement plan as described in section 22-11-305 or accredited with turnaround plan as described in section 22-11-306 is considering a salary increase for the school district superintendent, the board of education must publish notice of the proposal to increase the salary at least seven days before the public meeting at which the board will discuss the salary increase proposal. If the board of education decides to grant a salary increase to the school district superintendent, the board of education must publish notice of the salary increase at least seven days before the public meeting at which the board of education will take action on the proposed salary increase. The board of education must allow public comment on the proposed salary increase at that meeting. Each notice required in this subparagraph (IV) must include the time, date, and place of the public meeting and must be published in a newspaper within the school district that is competent to publish legal notices as provided in part 1 of article 70 of title 24, C.R.S. SECTION 2. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-32-126, add (6) as follows: 22-32-126. Principals - employment and authority. (6) A board of education that is considering a salary increase for the principal or a vice principal of a school that is operating under a priority improvement plan described in section 22-11-405 or a turnaround plan described in section 22-11-406 must publish notice of the salary increase proposal at least seven days before the public meeting at which the board will discuss the salary increase proposal. If the board of education decides to grant a salary increase to the principal or vice principal, the board of education must publish notice of the salary increase at least seven days before the public meeting at which the board of education will take action on the proposed salary increase. The board of education must allow public comment on the proposed salary increase at that meeting. Each notice required in this subsection (6) must include the time, date, and place of the public meeting and must be published in a newspaper within the school district that is competent to publish legal notices as provided in part 1 of article 70 of title 24, C.R.S. SECTION 3. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-30.5-111, add (4) as follows: 22-30.5-111. Charter schools - employees - principal salaries. (4) If the governing board of a charter school that is operating under a priority improvement plan described in section 22-11-405 or a turnaround plan described in section 22-11-406 is considering a salary increase for the principal or a vice principal of the charter school, the governing board must publish notice of the salary increase proposal at least seven days before the public meeting at which the board will discuss the salary increase proposal. If the governing board decides to grant a salary increase to the principal or vice principal, the governing board must publish notice of the salary increase at least seven days before the public meeting at which the governing board will take action on the proposed salary increase. The governing board must allow public comment on the proposed salary increase at that meeting. Each notice required in this subsection (4) must include the time, date, and place of the public meeting and must be published in a newspaper that is competent to publish legal notices as provided in part 1 of article 70 of title 24, C.R.S., and that is located within the school district in which the charter school is located. SECTION 4. In Colorado Revised Statutes, amend 22-30.5-512 as follows: 22-30.5-512. Institute charter schools - employees - principal salaries. (1) A local board of education shall determine by policy or by negotiated agreement, if one exists, the employment status of school district employees employed by an institute charter school who seek to return to employment with public schools in the school district. Employees of an institute charter school shall be members of the public employees' retirement association. The institute charter school and the employee shall contribute the appropriate respective amounts as required by the funds of such association. (2) If the governing board of an institute charter school that is operating under a priority improvement plan described in section 22-11-405 or a turnaround plan described in section 22-11-406 is considering a salary increase for the principal or a vice principal of the institute charter school, the governing board must publish notice of the salary increase proposal at least seven days before the public meeting at which the board will take action on the salary increase proposal. If the governing board decides to grant a salary increase to the principal or vice principal, the governing board must publish notice of the salary increase at least seven days before the public meeting at which the governing board will take action on the proposed salary increase. The governing board must allow public comment on the proposed salary increase at that meeting. Each notice required in this subsection (2) must include the time, date, and place of the public meeting and must be published in a newspaper that is competent to publish legal notices as provided in part 1 of article 70 of title 24, C.R.S., and that is located within the school district in which the institute charter school is located. SECTION 5. 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 10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2016); 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 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.