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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (202 4)
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57	57	HOUSE BILL 3771 By: Cantrell
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to schools; amending 70 O.S. 2021,
66	66	Section 5-142, which relates to cri minal history
67	67	record checks for school employ ment; exempting
68	68	certain employees from fingerprint requirements;
69	69	providing certain persons an exception from obtaining
70	70	additional criminal history record check; deleting
71	71	criminal history record check process for substitute
72	72	teachers; providing an effecti ve date; and declaring
73	73	an emergency.
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79	79	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
80	80	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 5 -142, is
81	81	amended to read as follows:
82	82	Section 5-142. A. Except as otherwise provided for in
83	83	subsection F of this section, for purposes of employment, a board of
84	84	education may request in writing to the State Board of Education
85	85	that a national criminal history record check be conducted of any
86	86	employee of the school and shall request such inform ation for any
87	87	person seeking employment with the school; provided that a board of
88	88	education shall not be required to obtain a new criminal h istory
89	89	record check for an individual who has obtained certification from
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141	141	the State Department of Education within t he previous twelve (12)
142	142	months. The State Department of Education shall not be required to
143	143	obtain fingerprints of an employee or prospective employee of the
144	144	Department if that person's fingerprints are a lready on file for
145	145	other state education certification or state education employment
146	146	processes. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) shall
147	147	obtain fingerprints of the employee or prospective employee and
148	148	require that the person pay a search fee not to exceed Fifty Dollars
149	149	($50.00) or the cost o f the search, whichever is the lesser amount .
150	150	The fee shall be deposited in the OSBI Revolving Fund. School
151	151	districts may reimburse employees for the cost of the search. The
152	152	State Board of Education shal l contact the Oklahoma State Bureau of
153	153	Investigation for any national criminal history record check of the
154	154	person within fourteen (14) working days of receiving a written
155	155	request from the board of education.
156	156	B. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall p rovide the
157	157	national criminal history record c heck requested by the State Board
158	158	of Education within fourteen (14) working days from the receipt of
159	159	the request. The Bureau may contact the Federal Bureau of
160	160	Investigation to obtain the information requested.
161	161	C. The State Board of Education shall provid e the information
162	162	received from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to the
163	163	board of education within fourteen (14) days from the receipt of the
164	164	information. The State Board of Education shall provide any follow-
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216	216	up information received from the OSBI concerning a person for which
217	217	a national criminal history record check was requested to the
218	218	employing board of education.
219	219	D. For the purpose of this sectio n:
220	220	1. "Board of education" includes both public and p rivate boards
221	221	of education within or outside this state;
222	222	2. "Employing agency" means a political subdivision or law
223	223	enforcement agency in this state;
224	224	3. "Law enforcement officer " means a peace or poli ce officer
225	225	who is certified by the Council on Law Enfo rcement Education and
226	226	Training;
227	227	4. "National criminal history record check " means a national
228	228	criminal history record check as defined in Section 150.9 of Title
229	229	74 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
230	230	5. "Prospective employee" means an individual who has receive d
231	231	an offer of temporary employment from a sch ool district pending the
232	232	results of the national criminal history record check.
233	233	E. Each public board of education within this state shall
234	234	promulgate a statement regarding the felony record search policy for
235	235	that school district. The policy may permit tem porary employment of
236	236	prospective employees for a maximum of sixty (60) days pending
237	237	receipt of results of national criminal history record check
238	238	requests. The temporary employment of the prospective employee
239	239	shall terminate after sixty (60) days unless th e school district
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291	291	receives the results of the national criminal history record check.
292	292	The sixty-day temporary employment period shall begin on the first
293	293	day the prospective employee reports for duty at the empl oying
294	294	school district. Prospective employees shall be notified of the
295	295	requirement, the fee and the reimbursement policy when first
296	296	interviewed concerning employment. The school district 's
297	297	reimbursement policy shall provide, at a minimum, that employees
298	298	shall be promptly reimbursed in full for the f ee if employed by the
299	299	district at the time the national criminal history record check
300	300	request is made unless the person was employed pending receipt of
301	301	results as set forth above.
302	302	F. 1. Any person who has been employed as a full-time teacher
303	303	by a school district in this state and applies for employment as a
304	304	full-time teacher in another school district in this state may not
305	305	be required to have a obtained an Oklahoma criminal history record
306	306	check from the OSBI or national criminal history record check for
307	307	certification, as required by Section 6 -190 of this title, or for
308	308	employment with a school, as required by this section , in the
309	309	immediately preceding five (5) years shall be exempt from any
310	310	additional Oklahoma criminal history record check from the OSBI or
311	311	national criminal history record check if the teacher produces a
312	312	copy of a national criminal history record check completed within
313	313	the preceding five (5) years and a letter from the school district
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365	365	in which the teacher was employed stating the teacher left in good
366	366	standing required for those same purposes.
367	367	2. For any person applying for employment as a substitute
368	368	teacher, a national criminal history record check shall be required
369	369	for the school year; provided, however, a board of education may
370	370	choose whether to require a national criminal history reco rd check
371	371	from a prospective substitute teacher who has been employed by the
372	372	school district in the last year. Any person applying for
373	373	employment as a substitute teacher in more than one school district
374	374	shall only be required to have one national criminal history record
375	375	check, and, upon the request of the substitute teacher, that record
376	376	check shall be sent to all other school districts in which the
377	377	substitute teacher is appl ying to teach.
378	378	3. Any person employed as a full-time teacher by a school
379	379	district in this state in the five (5) years immediately preceding
380	380	an application for employment as a substitute teacher may not be
381	381	required to have a national criminal history recor d check, if the
382	382	teacher produces a cop y of a national criminal history record check
383	383	completed within the preceding five (5) years and a letter from the
384	384	school district in which the teacher was last employed stating the
385	385	teacher left in good standing.
386	386	4. Any person employed as a substitute teac her by a school
387	387	district in this state for a m inimum of five (5) years immediately
388	388	preceding an application for employment as a full -time teacher in a
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440	440	school district in this state may not be required to have a nationa l
441	441	criminal history record check if the teacher produces a copy of a
442	442	national criminal history record check completed within the
443	443	preceding five (5) years and a letter from the school district in
444	444	which the teacher was employed as a substitute teacher stating the
445	445	teacher left in good standing.
446	446	5. Any person employed as a full-time teacher by a school
447	447	district in this state for ten (10) or more consecutive years
448	448	immediately preceding an application for employment as a substitute
449	449	teacher in the same school dist rict may not be required to have a
450	450	national criminal history record check for as lon g as the person
451	451	remains employed for consecutive years by that school district as a
452	452	substitute teacher, if the teacher left full -time employment in good
453	453	standing. If the teacher applies for employment as a sub stitute
454	454	teacher in another school district, a national criminal history
455	455	record check shall be required.
456	456	G. 1. Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, any
457	457	teacher employed by an Oklahoma school district prior to the
458	458	effective date of this act who does not have an Oklahoma criminal
459	459	history record check from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
460	460	as well as a national criminal history record check, as defined in
461	461	Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Stat utes, on file with his
462	462	or her employing district as required by this section shall c omplete
463	463	the criminal history record checks upon the next renewal of his or
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515	515	her Standard Teaching Certificate as required by Section 6 -154.1 of
516	516	this title or State Board of Education administrative rules
517	517	promulgated thereto.
518	518	2. Except as otherwise provid ed by this subsection, any other
519	519	person employed by an Oklahoma school district prior to the
520	520	effective date of this act who does not have an Oklahoma criminal
521	521	history record check from the Oklahoma State Bureau o f Investigation
522	522	as well as a national crimin al history record check, as defined in
523	523	Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, on file with his
524	524	or her employing district as required by this section shall have
525	525	until July 1, 2022, to complete the cri minal history record checks.
526	526	3. Any teacher eligible to retire from the Teachers ' Retirement
527	527	System of Oklahoma who does not have an Oklahoma criminal history
528	528	record check from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigati on as well
529	529	as a national criminal hist ory record check, as defined in Section
530	530	150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, on file with his or her
531	531	employing district as required by this section shall complete the
532	532	criminal history record checks by the earlie r of the following
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534	534	a. July 1, 2022, or
535	535	b. at the next renewal of his or her Standard Teaching
536	536	Certificate as required by Section 6 -154.1 of this
537	537	title or State Board of Education administrative rules
538	538	promulgated thereto.
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590	590	H. The provisions of this s ection shall not apply to technology
591	591	center employees hired on a part-time or temporary basis for the
592	592	instruction of adult students only.
593	593	I. The provisions of this section shall not apply to law
594	594	enforcement officers who are employed by an employing agency at the
595	595	time of application for employ ment at a public school district.
596	596	J. Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose
597	597	liability on school districts, except in negligence, for employing
598	598	prospective employees within the sixty -day temporary employm ent
599	599	window pending the results of the national criminal history record
600	600	check.
601	601	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2024.
602	602	SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
603	603	of the public peace, hea lth or safety, an emergency is hereby
604	604	declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
605	605	be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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