FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BLAND.
Read 1st time January 14, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 105.269, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to retired teachers and administrators in urban school districts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 105.269, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 105.269, to read as follows:
105.269. 1. Any metropolitan school district may allow retired teachers to teach in [said] such metropolitan school district for up to four years without losing his or her retirement benefits or to teach or be an administrator in a charter school established pursuant to sections 160.400 to 160.420, RSMo, in [said] such metropolitan school district without losing his or her retirement benefits. [Said] The retired teacher need not be in the teacher's salary scale. [Said] Such metropolitan school district shall place an emphasis on hiring retired teachers to teach in areas that include but are not limited to, improving student reading, which may include elementary remedial reading and the "Read to be Ready Program" as established under this act, math, science and special education.
2. Any urban school district containing most or all of a city with a population greater than four hundred thousand inhabitants may allow retired teachers and administrators to be employed in such urban school district for up to four years without losing his or her retirement benefits.
3. The department of elementary and secondary education shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.
[3.] 4. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in this section and section 167.640, RSMo, shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and section 167.640, RSMo, and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 1999, shall be invalid and void.