Amendment SSA1-SB625

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, To 1995 SENATE BILL 625

March 26, 1996 - Offered by Committee on Education and Financial Institutions.

SB625-SSA1,1,5 An Act to repeal 111.70 (4) (m) 2. and 119.18 (23); and to create 111.70 (4) (m) 3. and 119.18 (24) of the statutes; relating to: authorizing school closings and reconstitutions and school program discontinuations and reconstitutions, and the reassignment of staff resulting from such actions or subsequent reopenings or reinstitutions without regard to seniority, in a 1st class city school district.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB625-SSA1, s. 1 Section 1. 111.70 (4) (m) 2. of the statutes, as created by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is repealed.

SB625-SSA1, s. 2 Section 2. 111.70 (4) (m) 3. of the statutes is created to read:

SB625-SSA1,1,14 111.70 (4) (m) 3. Reassignment of municipal employes who perform services for a board of school directors, with or without regard to seniority, as a result of the decision of the board to close, reconstitute or reopen a school or discontinue, reinstitute or reconstitute a school program under s. 119.18 (24), or the impact of any such reassignment on the wages, hours or conditions of employment of the municipal employes who perform those services.

SB625-SSA1, s. 3 Section 3. 119.18 (23) of the statutes, as created by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is repealed.

SB625-SSA1, s. 4 Section 4. 119.18 (24) of the statutes is created to read:

SB625-SSA1,2,19 119.18 (24) School and program changes. The board may close or reconstitute any school or discontinue or reconstitute any school program that it determines is low in performance by adopting a resolution to that effect. If the superintendent of schools recommends to the board that a school be closed or reconstituted or that a school program be discontinued or reconstituted, he or she shall state the reasons for the recommendation in writing. If the board closes or reconstitutes a school or discontinues or reconstitutes a school program, the superintendent of schools may reassign the staff members of that school or school program without regard to seniority in service. If the board reopens or reconstitutes the school or reinstitutes or reconstitutes the school program, the superintendent of schools may reassign staff members to the school or school program without regard to seniority in service. The superintendent of schools may reassign staff members of any school without regard to seniority in service if the reassignment is related to the staffing needs of any school or school program affected by the closing, reconstitution or reopening of a school or the discontinuation, reinstitution or reconstitution of a school program, as determined by the superintendent of schools.

SB625-SSA1, s. 5 Section 5. Initial applicability.

SB625-SSA1,3,2 (1) The treatment of section 111.70 (4) (m) 3. of the statutes first applies to employes who are affected by a collective bargaining agreement that contains provisions inconsistent with that treatment on the day on which the collective bargaining agreement expires or is extended, modified or renewed, whichever occurs first.

SB625-SSA1,3,3 (End)