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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 825

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Relating to: lifetime licenses issued by the Department of Public Instruction and granting rule-making authority.

Public instruction, department of Teacher — Certificate

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the requirements for the Department of Public Instruction

to issue a lifetime license to a provisional license holder are 1) the provisional license

holder must successfully complete six semesters of teaching, administrator, or pupil

services experience and 2) the school board of each school district in which the

provisional license holder served as a teacher, administrator, or pupil services

professional must certify to DPI that the semesters completed by the provisional

license holder in that school district were completed successfully. This bill requires

DPI to define by rule what it means to successfully complete a semester of experience

and eliminates the requirement that school boards certify successful completion of

semesters of experience.

Under current law, if an individual who holds a lifetime license is not actively

employed by a school district for five or more consecutive years, DPI must invalidate

the lifetime license. Under the bill, DPI must invalidate a lifetime license if the

lifetime license holder is not regularly employed in education for five or more

consecutive years. The bill requires DPI to define “regularly employed in education”

by rule.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Fitzgerald (R) , Olsen (R) , Vukmir (R)

5 cosponsors

Felzkowski (R) , Jagler (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Nygren (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

Full history

  1. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Fitzgerald, Vukmir, Darling and Olsen; cosponsored by Representatives Nygren, Felzkowski, Jagler, Kooyenga and Thiesfeldt

  2. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1