00SENATE BILL NO. 98 am H                                                                                               
01 "An Act relating to teacher tenure."                                                                                    
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 14.20.150(d) is amended to read:                                                                  
04  (d)  A teacher who has acquired tenure in a school district in the state and who                                      
05 loses tenure in the district because of a break in service may  reacquire  [ACQUIRE]                                  
06 tenure in that school district [OR ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT] under this                                                  
07 subsection if the break in service was not the result of a dismissal under AS 14.20.170                                 
08 or nonretention under AS 14.20.175 and did not last longer than one year.  A break                                      
09 in service that begins on or after the last day of a school district's instructional days                               
10 for a school year but before the first instructional day of the next school year will be                                
11 considered to have lasted no longer than one year if the teacher is employed on the                                     
12 first instructional day of the school year that begins more than 12 but not more than                                   
13 16 months after the beginning of the break in service.  A previously tenured teacher                                    
14  reacquires  [ACQUIRES] tenure in  the  [A] school district under this subsection when                              

01 the teacher                                                                                                             
02   (1)  possesses a valid teaching certificate that authorizes the teacher to                                           
03 be employed as a certificated teacher or as an administrator under regulations adopted                                  
04 by the department;                                                                                                      
05   (2)  has been employed as a teacher in the district continuously for one                                             
06 full school year after a break in service that does not exceed the time limits set out in                               
07 this subsection;                                                                                                        
08   (3)  receives, under the district's evaluation system, an acceptable                                                 
09 evaluation from the district; and                                                                                       
10   (4)  on or before October 15 of the school year,                                                                     
11   (A)  accepts a contract for employment as a teacher in the                                                          
12 district for a second consecutive school year; and                                                                      
13   (B)  performs a day of teaching services in the district during                                                     
14 that school year.                                                                                                       
15    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.20.150(e) is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                          
16  (e)  Notwithstanding (a) of this section, a teacher who has acquired tenure in                                        
17 a school district who moves to a new school district acquires tenure in the new school                                  
18 district on the first instructional day of the third year of employment in the new school                               
19 district if                                                                                                             
20   (1)  the teacher otherwise meets the qualifications for tenure set out in                                            
21 (a) of this section; and                                                                                                
22   (2)  the break in service meets the requirements of (d) of this section.