HOUSE Amended 2nd Reading January 27, 2006Second Regular Session Sixty-fifth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO ENGROSSED This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted on Second Reading in the House of Introduction LLS NO. 06-0105.02 Jerry Barry HOUSE BILL 06-1021 HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Benefield, SENATE SPONSORSHIP Tupa, House Committees Senate Committees Education A BILL FOR AN ACT Concerning physical education teachers employed by school districts. Bill Summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.) Prohibits a school district from employing as a physical education teacher a person who does not hold a physical education endorsement on his or her teacher license or who is not highly qualified as determined by the school district. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. Part 2 of article 63 of title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read: 22-63-201.5. Employment contracts - physical education teachers. (1) For school years beginning on and after July 1, 2010, in addition to the requirements of section 22-63-201, the board of a school district shall not enter into an employment contract with any person to teach any physical education course or class, as designated by the board, except in a junior college district or in an adult education program, unless such person has a license endorsement for physical education issued pursuant to section 22-60.5-106. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, a school district may contract with a teacher to teach a physical education course or class if the teacher: (a) Holds an alternative teacher license pursuant to section 22-60.5-201 (1) (a); or (b) Holds a teacher in residence or an emergency authorization pursuant to section 22-60.5-111. SECTION 2. 22-60.5-111 (4) (b), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 22-60.5-111. Authorization - types - applicants' qualifications. (4) Emergency authorization. (b) An emergency authorization is valid for one year. If the state board of education determines that the employing school district continues to require the services of the person holding the emergency authorization, based on evidence submitted by the school district demonstrating the continued existence of the hardship circumstances described in subparagraphs (II) and (III) of paragraph (a) of this subsection (4), the state board of education may renew the emergency authorization for one additional year only; except that this one-year limitation shall not apply to an applicant employed to teach physical education by a school district with a student enrollment of five hundred students or fewer. SECTION 3. 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.