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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
HOUSE BILL 3813 By: Dollens
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction; creating the Do Your Job Act; amending
70 O.S. 2021, Section 3 -104.3, which relates to
requirements for compliance with quality standards
and loss or denial of accreditation; directing the
Office of Educational Quality and Accountability to
take certain required actions; amending 70 O.S. 2021,
Section 3-104.4, which relates to standard for
accreditation; modifying ac crediting entity; amending
70 O.S. 2021, Section 3 -106, which relates to the
salary of Superintendent; subjecting salary to review
by the Commission for Educational Quality and
Accountability; permitting vote and decision on
Superintendent's salary; providing considerations;
directing that withheld monies be appropriated to the
Department of Education; amending 74 O.S. 2021,
Section 250.4, which relates to the salaries of state
officers; directing that the Superintendent's salary
be subject to review; and providing an effective
date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Do Your Job
Act".
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SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 3 -104.3, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 3-104.3 A. The Legislature, recognizing its obligation
to the children of this state to ensure their opportunity to receive
an excellent education, and recognizin g its obligation to the
taxpayers of this state to ensure that schooling is accomplis hed in
an efficient manner, hereby establishes requirements for compl iance
with quality standards which the public schools and school
districts, within the limits of resou rces now or subsequently
available, must meet.
B. State accreditation shall be withd rawn from or denied to
schools or school districts that do not meet t he requirements of
Sections 2, 3, 6, 28, 29, 30, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49 of this
act, and the State Board of Education Office of Educational Quality
and Accountability shall take action as required by this act to
ensure that students affected are enroll ed in schools that are able
to maintain state accreditation. Nothing herein shall be construed
as prohibiting the withdrawing or denial of accreditati on for
failure to meet requirements as elsewhere provided by law.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 3 -104.4, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 3-104.4 A. The State Board of Education Office of
Educational Quality and Accoun tability shall adopt standards for the
accreditation of the public schools in this state accord ing to the
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requirements of Section 3 -104.3 et seq. of this title, to be
effective as set forth in Section 3-104.3 et seq. of this title.
The accreditation standards shall incorporate the curricular
standards established pursuant to Section 11 -103.6 of this title.
The accreditation standards shall equal or exceed nationally
recognized accreditation standards to the extent that the standards
are consistent with an academic results oriented approach to
accreditation. The accreditation adopted by the State Board Office
of Educational Quality and Accoun tability shall encompass
accreditation for elementary schools, middle schools, junior high
schools, and high schools. The accreditation standards shall be
made available for public inspection at the offices of the State
Department of Education.
B. Standards for accreditation adopted by the State Board of
Education Office of Educational Quality and Accoun tability shall
include standards relating to the provision of school counselors to
the public school children of this state. The State Board of
Education Office of Educational Quality and Accoun tability shall
require each local school district to provide information regarding
the number of counselors serving each school site, the dutie s of all
such counselors including all administrative duties, the number of
students served by each counselor, and information regarding the
number of counselors employed per elementary school, middle school,
junior high school and high school.
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C. Except as otherwise provided, schools shall meet the
accreditation standards as a condition of continued accreditation.
Nothing herein shall be construed as preventing changes to the
adopted standards by the State Board of Education Office of
Educational Quality and Accoun tability pursuant to the
Administrative Procedures Act. The accreditation standards shall
provide for warnings, probation or nonaccredited status for schools
that fail to meet the standards. The Department shall investigate a
complaint of failure to provide educational services or failure to
comply with accreditation standards within thirty (30) days of
receiving the complaint. If the Department determines that a school
has failed to comply with the ac creditation standards, the
Department shall report the recommended wa rning, probation or
nonaccredited accreditation status to the State Board of Education
Office of Educational Quality and Accoun tability within ninety (90)
days. If a school does not take action to comply with the
accreditation standards within ninety (90) days after a report is
filed by the Department, the Board Office of Educational Quality and
Accountability shall withdraw accreditation for the school. The
State Board Office of Educational Quality and Accountability
accreditation regulations shall provide for warnings and for
assistance to schools and school districts whenever there is reason
to believe a school is in danger of losing its state accreditation.
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D. If one or more school sites fail to receive accreditation as
required pursuant to this section or subsequently lose
accreditation, the State Board of Education Office of Educational
Quality and Accountability shall close the school and reassign the
students to accredited schools within the district or shall a nnex
the district to one or more other districts in which the students
can be educated in accredited schools.
E. Standards for accreditation adopted by the State Board of
Education Office of Educational Quality and Accoun tability shall
include standards relating to the provision of educationa l services
provided in partial hospitalization programs, day treatment
programs, day hospital programs, residential treatment programs and
emergency shelter programs for persons between t he ages of three (3)
and twenty-one (21) years of age. The accredita tion standards shall
apply to on-site and off-site educational services provided by
public school districts or state-accredited private sc hools. Each
school which is providing or is requ ired to provide educational
services for students placed in a program as described in this
subsection shall be actively monitored by the State Department of
Education. The Department shall determine on an o ngoing basis if
the educational program and servi ces are in compliance with the
accreditation standards.
F. The State Board Office of Educational Quality and
Accountability shall provide assistance to districts in considering
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the possibility of meeting accreditation requirements through the
use of nontraditional means of instruction. The State Board Office
of Educational Quality and Accoun tability shall also assist
districts in forming cooperatives and making arrangements for the
use of satellite instruction or other instructional technologies to
the extent that use of such instructional means meets a ccreditation
standards.
G. 1. Accreditation shall not be withdrawn from or denied nor
shall a penalty be assessed against a sch ool or school district for
failing to meet the media materials and equipment standards, media
program expenditure standards and media personnel standards as set
forth in the accreditation standards adopted by the Board Office of
Educational Quality and Accoun tability.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 of this subsection shall cease
to be effective during the fiscal year which begins on the July 1
immediately succeeding the legis lative session during which the
measure appropriating monies to the State Board of Education for the
financial support of public schools is enacted as law and such
appropriation amount is at least Fifty Million Dollars
($50,000,000.00) greater than the amo unt of money appropriated to
the State Board of Education for the financial support of public
schools for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, pursuant to
Chapter 146, O.S.L. 2018. Provided, the Fifty Million Dollars
($50,000,000.00) shall not include an y amount of appropriations
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dedicated for support or certified employee salary increases.
Accreditation shall not be withdrawn fr om or denied nor shall a
penalty be assessed against a school or school district for failing
to meet the media personnel standa rds as set forth in accreditation
standards adopted by the Board Office of Educational Quality and
Accountability.
H. 1. The State Board shall not assess a financial penalty
against any school district which is given a deficiency in
accreditation status during any fiscal year as provided for in this
subsection.
2. Beginning with the fiscal year which begins July 1, 2021, if
the amount of money appropriated t o the State Board of Education for
the financial support of public schools including funds apportioned
pursuant to Section 2 of this act, is at least One Hundred Million
Dollars ($100,000,000.00) greater than the amount of money
appropriated to the Stat e Board of Education for the finan cial
support of public schools for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019,
pursuant to Chapter 146, O.S.L. 2018, a financial penalty shall be
assessed against any school districts that do not comply with the
class size limitations for kindergarten as provide d for in Section
18-113.2 of this title and class size limitations for grade one as
provided for in subse ction A of Section 18-113.1 of this title.
Provided, the One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00) shall
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not include any amount of appropriations dedicated for support or
certified employee salary increases.
3. The State Department of Education shall submit a report on
statewide classroom sizes to the President Pro Tempore of the
Oklahoma State Senate and the Speak er of the Oklahoma House of
Representatives no later than January 1, 2022.
I. Except as provided for in subsection J of this section,
beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, evaluations of schools to
determine whether they meet the accreditation standar ds set forth in
accordance with this section shall occur once every four (4) years
on a schedule adopted by the State Board of Education Office of
Educational Quality and Accoun tability. The Board Office of
Educational Quality and Accoun tability may interrupt the evaluation
schedule provided in this subsection for reasons inc luding a change
in the superintendent of the school district ; determination that one
or more school district b oard members have not met the continuing
education requirements as defined by this title; determination that
the school district falsified informa tion submitted to any publ ic
city, county, state or federal official or agency; initiation of an
investigation by the Board Office of Educational Quality and
Accountability or a law enforcement agency; or other determination
by the Board Office of Educational Quality and Accoun tability that
standards for accreditation are not being met by the school
district. The schedule adop ted by the Board Office of Educational
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Quality and Accountability shall allow for school districts
receiving no deficiencies for two (2) consecutive years to be
reviewed for accreditation less than annually. Provided, however,
that schools shall be evaluated annually for the purposes of:
1. Local, state and federal funding;
2. Health and safety;
3. Certification requirements for teachers, principals and
superintendents;
4. School board governance, including instructional and
continuing education requirements for school board members; and
5. Any other requirements under state or federal law.
J. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, if a public school
receives a deficiency on its ac creditation report, the public school
shall be evaluated annually to determine if it meets the
accreditation standard s set forth in accordance with this section.
If the public school receives no deficiencies for two (2)
consecutive years, the public schoo l shall be subject to the
evaluation timeline established in subsection I of this section.
SECTION 4. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 3 -106, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 3-106. A. The State Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall have an office at the seat of government where all
books and papers pertaining to the office of the Superintendent
shall be kept. The books and papers shall be kept and preserved in
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the office and delivered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to a successor. The Superintendent shall file and carefully
preserve in the office all official reports made to the
Superintendent. The salary of the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall be as provided for in Section 250.4 of Title 74 of
the Oklahoma Statutes , subject to a review by the Commission for
Educational Quality and Accountability provided in subsecti on B of
this section.
B. The Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability
shall annually meet before the sta rt of each state fiscal year to
review the performance of the State Super intendent of Public
Instruction. The Commission shall have the power to vote on and
decide to cut the Superintendent 's salary up to fifty percent (50%)
for poor performance. The Commission shall consider, but is not
limited to:
1. Grant applications;
2. Teacher retention; and
3. Statewide student test scores.
Any monies withheld from the Superintendent 's salary shall be
reappropriated to the Oklahoma State Department of Education 's
budget.
SECTION 5. AMENDATORY 74 O.S. 2021, Section 250.4, is
amended to read as follows:
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Section 250.4 Pursuant to provisions of the Constitution of the
State of Oklahoma from a nd after the beginning date of a term of
office which commences in, or after, January 2016, the following
officers of the State of Oklahoma sh all be annually compensated for
their services, payable monthly, as follows:
1. The Governor shall receive a sala ry of One Hundred Forty -
seven Thousand Dollars ($147,000.00);
2. The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a salary of One
Hundred Fourteen Thous and Seven Hundred Thirteen Dollars
($114,713.00);
3. The Attorney General shall receive a salary of One Hundred
Thirty-two Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty -five Dollars ($132,825.00);
4. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall receive
a salary of One Hundred Twenty -four Thousand Three Hun dred Seventy-
three Dollars ($124,373.00 ), subject to review as provided in
Section 3-106 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma S tatutes;
5. Each member of the Corporation Co mmission shall receive a
salary of One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred Thirteen
Dollars ($114,713.00);
6. The State Treasurer shall receive a salary of One Hundred
Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred Thirteen Dollars ($114,713.00);
7. The State Auditor and Inspector shall receive a salary of
One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred Thirt een Dollars
($114,713.00);
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8. The State Insurance Commissioner shall receive a salary of
One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred Thirteen Dollars
($114,713.00); and
9. The Commissioner of Labor shall receive a salary of One
Hundred Five Thousand Fift y-three Dollars ($105,053.00).
SECTION 6. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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