2016 -- S 3074

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO EDUCATION -- BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

     Introduced By: Senators Sosnowski, Jabour, and Sheehan

     Date Introduced: June 09, 2016

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 16-59-22 of the General Laws in Chapter 16-59 entitled "Board of

Governors for Higher Education [See Title 16 Chapter 97 - The Rhode Island Board of Education

Act]" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     16-59-22. Applicability of merit system -- Teacher certification -- List of positions

transferable to classified service. -- (a) The appointment, promotion, salaries, tenure, and

dismissal of administrative, instructional, and research employees, and secretarial employees not

exceeding ten (10) in number, and armed college and university police officers of the state

colleges shall not be subject in any manner or degree to control by the personnel administrator or

by any officer or board other than the council on postsecondary education. The certification of

teachers at the University of Rhode Island is abolished, except for teachers that elect to come or

remain under it.

      (b) All positions that are exempt from the Merit System Law, chapter 4 of title 36, which

become vacant or that are to be established, must be forwarded to the personnel administrator,

who in consultation with the deputy assistant commissioner of education in charge of personnel

and labor relations shall determine whether the position(s) in question shall remain in the council

on postsecondary education non-classified service or be established in the classified service of the

state.

      (c) No position presently in the classified service of the state subject to the Merit System

Law, chapter 4 of title 36, shall be changed or modified so as to establish the position in the

council on postsecondary education non-classified service.

      (d) Faculty positions, presidents, vice presidents, deans, assistant deans, and student

employees of the higher education institutions shall not be covered by the preceding provisions

and shall remain in the council on postsecondary education non-classified service.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

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RELATING TO EDUCATION -- BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

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     This act would include armed college and university police officers of the state colleges

among the class of individuals who are subject to control by the personnel administrator or by any

officer or board other than the council on post-secondary education.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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