SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 889
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR DOUGHERTY.
Pre-filed January 8, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3765S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 105.269, RSMo, relating to retired teachers and administrators' retirement benefits, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 105.269, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 105.269, to read as follows: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] and administrators to be employed in said 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 metropolitan school district without losing his or her retirement benefits. Said retired teacher need not be in the teacher's salary scale. Said 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. The department of elementary and secondary education shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.
3. 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.