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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR B. Sanchez

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/21/08

HB

SHORT TITLE Technical Corrections To 2007 Laws

SB 257

ANALYST Propst

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY08

FY09

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 257, Making Technical Corrections to the Enrolled and Engrossed Copies of Certain

2007 Laws; Conforming the Law Relating to the Hospitality Fee Proceeds to the Actions of the

Legislature, aligns 22-8B-10 of the Charter Schools Act with 22-5-6 pertaining to hiring

authority and the relationship between local school boards (Governing Councils) and the district

superintendent (Head Administrator). SB 257 also amends language added to 22-8B-10 in

Senate Bill 600 (47

th

Legislature, Regular Session; Laws of 2006, Chapt, 94, Sec. 37) relative to

avoiding nepotism in hiring. The bill was passed by the 2007 Legislature but was enrolled and

engrossed incorrectly. This bill would restore the language of the legislation passed in 2007.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

None

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Senate Bill 257 would enact 1% “hospitality" fee on gross rent of accommodations to be used for

equipping and furnishing municipal convention centers and to purchase advertising for

promotion of tourism related facilities within the municipality area. This bill would amend

Senate Bill 257 – Page 2

existing bill that allows charter schools to hire their own employees to allow the head

administrator of the charter school to employ, fix the salaries, assign, terminate and discharge all

employees of the charter school.

According to PED, the bill would make the hiring practices of charter schools align with current

hiring practices of school districts, by requiring all decisions to hire, fix salaries, assign,

terminate or discharge employees of a charter school to be made by that school’s head

administrator. The head administrator could not initially employ in any capacity certain

enumerated relatives of the head administrator or governing body. However, the bill would give

the governing body the authority to waive prohibited employment of relatives of the head

administrator just as current law allows a local board that waiver as to a district superintendent.

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