Bill Text: MS SB2473 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Contracts with school principals; revise contract date.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [SB2473 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-SB2473-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Education
By: Senator(s) Polk
Senate Bill 2473
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-9-15 AND 37-9-23, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE DATE OF ENTERING INTO CONTRACTS WITH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS TO THE SAME AS TEACHERS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 37-9-15, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-9-15. No later than * * * April 1 of each year, the
superintendent of each school district, or such other person designated or
authorized by the school board, shall recommend to the school board thereof the
assistant superintendents and principals to be employed for each of the schools
of the districts except in the case of those assistant superintendents and
principals who have been previously employed and who have a contract valid for
the ensuing scholastic year. Unless good reason to the contrary exists, the
school board shall approve and authorize the employment of the assistant
superintendents and principals so recommended. If, for any reason, the school
board shall decline to approve an assistant superintendent or principal so
recommended, the superintendent or the board's designee shall make additional
recommendations for the place or places to be filled.
When the assistant superintendents and principals of the schools have been recommended and approved as provided in the preceding paragraph, the superintendent of such district shall enter into proper contracts with them. At a subsequent meeting he shall report same to the school board and such shall be entered in the minutes.
An interim conservator appointed pursuant to the provisions of Section 37-17-6(14)(a) shall not be required to comply with the time limitations prescribed in this section for recommending and employing assistant superintendents and principals.
SECTION 2. Section 37-9-23, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-9-23. The superintendent
shall enter into a contract with each assistant superintendent, principal,
licensed employee and person anticipating graduation from an approved teacher
education program or the issuance of a proper license before October 15 or * * * April 1, as the case may be,
who is elected and approved for employment by the school board. Such contracts
shall be in such form as shall be prescribed by the State Board of Education
and shall be executed in duplicate with one (1) copy to be retained by the
appropriate superintendent and one (1) copy to be retained by the principal,
licensed employee or person recommended for a licensed position contracted
with. The contract shall show the name of the district, the length of the
school term, the position held (whether an assistant superintendent, principal
or licensed employee), the scholastic years which it covers, the total amount
of the annual salary and how same is payable. The amount of salary to be shown
in such contract shall be the amount which shall have been fixed and determined
by the school board, but, as to the licensed employees paid, in whole or
in part, with adequate education program funds, such salary shall not be
less than that required under the provisions of Chapter 19 of this title.
Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, the contract shall include a
provision allowing the school district to reduce the state minimum salary by a
pro rata daily amount in order to comply with the school district employee
furlough provisions of Section 37-7-308, and shall include a provision which
conditions the payment of such salary upon the availability of adequate
education funds provided for salaries. The contract entered into with any
person recommended for a licensed position who is anticipating either
graduation from an approved teacher education program before September 1 or
December 31, as the case may be, or the issuance of a proper license before
October 15 or * * * April 1, as the case may be, shall be a conditional
contract and shall include a provision stating that the contract will be null
and void if, as specified in the contract, the contingency upon which the
contract is conditioned has not occurred. If any superintendent, other than
those elected, principal, licensed employee or person recommended for a
licensed position who has been elected and approved shall not execute and
return the contract within ten (10) days after same has been tendered to him
for execution, then, at the option of the school board, the election of the
licensed employee and the contract tendered to him shall be void and of no
effect.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.
