2021-05-03                     Senate Journal                      Page 0944
                        Third Reading of Senate Bills                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
SB 20                                                                                                                         
CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 20(FIN) "An Act relating to teaching                                                                     
certificates for teachers holding out-of-state certificates" was read the                                                       
third time.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Senator Wielechowski moved the bill be returned to second reading                                                               
for the purpose of a specific amendment, that being Amendment                                                                   
No. 1. Without objection, the bill was returned to second reading.                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Senator Wielechowski offered Amendment No. 1 :                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Page 1, line 1, following the second occurrence of "certificates":                                                            
          Insert "; and relating to public school teacher dwellings"                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Page 3, following line 18:                                                                                                      
          Insert a new bill section to read:                                                                                    
"* Sec. 8. AS 14.20 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                               
                   Sec. 14.20.098. Teacher dwelling. (a) A person may                                                         
          not instruct students as a full-time teacher in continuous                                                            
          employment working more than 30 hours each week in a                                                                  
          public school of the state unless the person maintains a                                                              
          dwelling in the state when instructing students.                                                                      
                   (b)  This section does not apply if the employer or the                                                      
          employer's designee has made a specific written                                                                       
          determination that requiring a teacher to maintain a dwelling                                                         
          in the state is impracticable to meet the educational needs of                                                        
          the public school.                                                                                                    
                   (c)  In this section,                                                                                        
                             (1)  "dwelling" means a space intended to be                                                       
          occupied as a residence;                                                                                              
                             (2)  "full-time teacher" means a teacher                                                           
          occupying a position requiring teaching on a regular basis for                                                        
          the normal work period each day or week at a teaching                                                                 
          assignment, excluding teaching as an assistant or graduate                                                            
          assistant or teaching on a substitute, temporary, or per diem                                                         
          basis."