00HOUSE BILL NO. 288                                                                                                      
01 "An Act relating to acquisition of tenure rights."                                                                      
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 14.20.147(b) is amended to read:                                                                    
04  (b)  When a school operated by a federal agency is transferred to or absorbed                                         
05 into a new or existing school district, the teachers shall also be transferred if mutually                            
06 agreed by the teacher or teachers and the school board of the new or existing district.                                 
07 A teacher transferred from a federal agency school that [, WHICH] does not have an                                    
08 official salary schedule or teacher tenure in the same manner as a public school district                               
09 in the state [,] shall be placed on a position on the salary schedule of the absorbing                                  
10 district; the salary may not be less than the teacher would have received in the federal                                
11 agency school.  If the teacher taught five [TWO] or more years in the federal agency                                  
12 school and, at the time of transfer, had a valid Alaska teaching certificate, that teacher                              
13 shall be placed on tenure in the absorbing district.                                                                    
14    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.20.150 is amended to read:                                                                          

01  Sec. 14.20.150.  ACQUISITION OF TENURE RIGHTS.  (a)  A teacher                                                        
02 acquires tenure rights in a district when the teacher                                                                   
03   (1)  possesses a standard teaching certificate;                                                                      
04   (2)  has been employed as a teacher in the same district continuously                                                
05 for five [TWO] full school years and is reemployed for the school year immediately                                    
06 following the five [TWO] full school years.                                                                           
07  (b)  The tenure rights acquired under (a) of this section become effective on the                                     
08 first day the teacher performs teaching services in the district during the school year                                 
09 immediately following the five [TWO] full school years.                                                               
10    * Sec. 3.  The amendments made by this Act apply to teachers first hired by a school                                 
11 district on or after the effective date of this Act.