Florida Senate - 2013                                     SB 784
       
       
       
       By Senator Thompson
       
       
       
       
       12-01216-13                                            2013784__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to charter schools; amending s.
    3         1002.33, F.S.; requiring the compensation and salary
    4         schedules for charter school employees to be based on
    5         school district schedules; providing salary
    6         restrictions in certain instances; providing an
    7         effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (16) of section
   12  1002.33, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         1002.33 Charter schools.—
   14         (16) EXEMPTION FROM STATUTES.—
   15         (b) Additionally, a charter school shall be in compliance
   16  with the following statutes:
   17         1. Section 286.011, relating to public meetings and
   18  records, public inspection, and criminal and civil penalties.
   19         2. Chapter 119, relating to public records.
   20         3. Section 1003.03, relating to the maximum class size,
   21  except that the calculation for compliance pursuant to s.
   22  1003.03 shall be the average at the school level.
   23         4. Section 1012.22(1)(c), relating to compensation and
   24  salary schedules. The compensation and salary schedules for
   25  instructional personnel and school administrators hired on or
   26  after July 1, 2013, shall be based on the schedules of the
   27  school district in which the charter school is located. If a
   28  school district does not have compensation and salary schedules,
   29  the salary of a charter school employee may not exceed the
   30  salary of the highest paid public school employee serving in the
   31  same capacity in the school district in which the charter school
   32  operates.
   33         5. Section 1012.33(5), relating to workforce reductions.
   34         6. Section 1012.335, relating to contracts with
   35  instructional personnel hired on or after July 1, 2011.
   36         7. Section 1012.34, relating to the substantive
   37  requirements for performance evaluations for instructional
   38  personnel and school administrators.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.