An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 3888 By: McCall, Frix, and McDugle
of the House
and
Simpson of the Senate
An Act relating to teachers; requiring certain
employment contracts for teachers employed by the
Oklahoma School for the Deaf or Oklahoma School for
the Blind; setting maximum amou nt of working hours
for contract duration; defi ning working hours;
requiring additional compensation for certain time
worked; specifying calcu lation for compensation;
providing for codification; providin g an effective
date; and declaring an emergency.
SUBJECT: Teachers
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLA HOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1730 of Title 70, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Beginning with the 2022 -2023 school year, a person who is
certified to teach by the State Board of Education and hired or
employed as a teacher by the Oklahoma School for the Deaf or
Oklahoma School for the Blind shall enter into an employment
contract which begins on August 1 and ends on July 31 of the
subsequent calendar year. The employment contract shall establish a
maximum amount of one thousand two hundred (1,200) working hours for
the duration of the contract.
B. As used in this section, "working hours " means instructional
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time which is unpaid. Working hours shall not include time spent in
stipend positions or paid extra duty, extracurricular activity, or
athletic coaching time. Volunteer time occurring outside of the
school year shall not be included in the working hours maximum
established in subsection A of this section.
C. Teachers employed by the Oklahoma School for the Deaf or
Oklahoma School for the Blind shall be compensated for using their
planning time, lunch period, or othe r available time to cover for an
absent teacher. The amount of com pensation shall be determined by
dividing the daily rate of a certified substitute teacher by the
number of class periods or hours covered by the teacher.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediately n ecessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its pas sage and approval.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 7th day of March, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 27th day of April, 2022.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______ , at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _____ ____
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________