Senate panel carries over bill tightening teacher-notice rules, creating sick‑leave bank and revising certification language

The Senate Education Committee carried over House Bill 3196 after committee members debated requirements that would change how districts notify teachers of reemployment, create a district sick‑leave bank, and alter retired‑educator certification rules.

The bill would require written reemployment notices to include a projected minimum salary schedule and a teacher’s tentative assignment at least 14 calendar days before students return to school. It would let certified and noncertified school employees donate unused sick or annual leave in excess of 60 days to a districtwide sick‑leave bank. The measure also would convert the retired educator certificate from a renewable credential to a lifetime credential with a five‑year maintenance request provision; the subcommittee amendment…