GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	2
HOUSE BILL 190*
 Committee Substitute Favorable 4/11/01

Short Title:	Local Flex. Regarding Charter Sch. Teachers.	()	
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Referred to:	     	
February 21, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PERMIT LOCAL FLEXIBILITY WITH REGARD TO THE REHIRING OF TEACHERS WHO LEAVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO TEACH IN CHARTER SCHOOLS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑238.29F(e)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(e)	Employees. – 
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(3)	If a teacher employed by a local school administrative unit makes a written request for a leave of absence to teach at a charter school, the local school administrative unit shall grant the leave for one year. For the initial year of a charter school's operation, the local school administrative unit may require that the request for a leave of absence be made up to 45 days before the teacher would otherwise have to report for duty. After the initial year of a charter school's operation, the local school administrative unit may require that the request for a leave of absence be made up to 90 days before the teacher would otherwise have to report for duty. A local board of education is not required to grant a request for a leave of absence or a request to extend or renew a leave of absence for a teacher who previously has received a leave of absence from that school board under this subdivision. 
The local school administrative unit that grants a leave of absence to a teacher under this subdivision shall give priority hiring consideration to that teacher upon the end of that teacher's employment at the charter school if an appropriate position is available. If an appropriate position is not available, that teacher shall have priority on all positions that become available during the next three consecutive years for which that teacher is qualified. If the local school administrative unit offers the teacher a position for which the teacher is qualified and the teacher refuses the position, the administrative unit is no longer required to give priority hiring consideration to that teacher."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to requests under G.S. 115C‑238.29F(e)(3) that are made on and after that date.