Title: Employment After Retirement of School District Personnel

Summary: Revises provisions relating to reemployment of retirees as instructional personnel on contractual basis.

Full Text:
WHEREAS, before July 1, 2011, only a member of a school district's instructional personnel who had completed years of probationary service in the district within successive years and who had satisfied all other requirements as specified by law was eligible for a professional service contract, and WHEREAS, retirees rehired by a school district who did not complete the probationary service and satisfy all other statutory requirements for a professional services contract before July 1, 2011, were not eligible for a professional services contract, and WHEREAS, effective July 1, 2011, school districts were not authorized to award professional service contracts to any instructional personnel due to the enactment of chapter 2011-1, Laws of Florida, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (8) of section 1012.33, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: CS/HB 1003 2016 1012.33 Contracts with instructional staff, supervisors, and school principals.-(8) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member may interrupt retirement and be reemployed in any public school. A member of the instructional staff reemployed by the same district from which he or she retired may be reemployed only employed on a probationary or annual contractual basis as provided in s. 1012.335 subsection (1).Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.