00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 191                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to borough school district budgets; relating to the time required for                                  
02 school districts to notify tenured teachers of layoff or nonretention; and providing for an                             
03 effective date."                                                                                                        
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 14.14.060(c) is amended to read:                                                                   
06 (c)  Except as otherwise provided by municipal ordinance, the borough school                                            
07 board shall submit the school budget for the following school year to the borough                                       
08 assembly by May 1 for approval of the total amount. If the legislature has not yet                                  
09 appropriated an amount to fund public education for the following school year,                                      
10 the borough school board shall develop the budget for the following school year                                     
11 based on the amount the legislature appropriated to fund public education in the                                    
12 current school year. Within 30 days after receipt of the budget, the assembly shall                             
13 determine the total amount of money to be made available from local sources for                                         
14 school purposes and shall furnish the school board with a statement of the sum to be                                    
01 made available. If the assembly does not, within 30 days, furnish the school board                                      
02 with a statement of the sum to be made available, the amount requested in the budget                                    
03 is automatically approved. Except as otherwise provided by municipal ordinance, by                                      
04 June 30, the assembly shall appropriate the amount to be made available from local                                      
05       sources from money available for the purpose.                                                                     
06    * Sec. 2. AS 14.20.140(a) is amended to read:                                                                      
07 (a)  If a teacher who has acquired tenure rights is to be laid off under                                                
08 AS 14.20.177 or is not to be retained for the following school year, the employer shall                                 
09 notify the teacher of the layoff or nonretention by writing, delivered before June 15                               
10       [MAY 15], or by registered mail postmarked before June 15 [MAY 15].                                           
11    * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
12 read:                                                                                                                   
13       APPLICABILITY. AS 14.20.140(a), as amended by sec. 2 of this Act, applies to a                                    
14 contract or collective bargaining agreement that becomes legally binding on or after the                                
15 effective date of this Act.                                                                                             
16    * Sec. 4. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.