ON APRIL 9, 2025, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 602, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to require the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher. For teachers who teach a course for which a TCAP test is administered, a student must have been present in the teacher's classroom for 150 days of classroom instruction, or 75 days of classroom instruction if the school is on a block schedule, before the student's record is attributable to the teacher. Under present law, the estate of a state employee, on the employee's death is compensated for the employee's unused and accrued sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased employees are compensated for terminal leave. Under present law, for a state employee entitled to terminal leave at death, the compensation covering the same is paid to their estate or to their designated beneficiary. This amendment authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. ON APRIL 16, 2025, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 602 FOR HOUSE BILL 1125, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #2, AND PASSED SENATE BILL 602, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #2 makes the estate of a deceased teacher eligible for compensation for the teacher's accrued leave if the teacher was employed by an LEA of public charter school at the time of the teacher's death rather than if the teacher died on or after September 1, 2024, while employed by the LEA or public charter school.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 49-1-203(c)(1), 49-1-203
Amended with SA0284 -- 04/09/2025: 49-1-203(c)(1), 49-1-203, 49-1-302(d)(2)(B), 49-1-302
Amended with SA0284, HA0432 -- 04/21/2025: 49-1-203(c)(1), 49-1-203, 49-1-302(d)(2)(B), 49-1-302