PRINTER'S NO. 1152
No. 1035 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY REED, DININNI, CIMINI, KUKOVICH, BROWN, STEIGHNER
AND STEWART, APRIL 24, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, APRIL 24, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," by providing for the emergency
6 generated by the Three Mile Island crisis in relationship to
7 the length of the school year, the compensation of employes
8 and the graduation of qualified students.
9 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11 Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, NO.14), known
12 as the "Public School Code of 1949," is amended by adding a
13 section to read:
14 Section 1501.3. Three Mile Island Emergency of 1979.--(a)
15 No public or approved private kindergarten, elementary or
16 secondary school, vocational-technical school, or intermediate
17 unit program of instruction which was closed because of the
18 Three Mile Island Emergency of 1979 and which makes a good faith
19 effort as determined by the Secretary of Education to keep open
20 for at least one hundred eighty (180) days of instruction for
21 pupils shall receive less subsidy payments or reimbursements
1 than it would otherwise be entitled to receive on account of the
2 school year 1978-1979. No employe of any school closed by reason
3 of the Three Mile Island Emergency of 1979 shall receive more or
4 less compensation than that to which the employe would otherwise
5 have been entitled to from the school district, intermediate
6 unit or vocational-technical school, had the Three Mile Island
7 Emergency of 1979 not occurred.
8 (b) An employe shall not receive additional salary for
9 services rendered on days or for hours rescheduled as a result
10 of the Three Mile Island Emergency of 1979, unless the number of
11 days rescheduled extends the number of days provided for in the
12 original school calendar; in which case, an employe shall
13 receive a pro rata increase for such additional days.
14 (c) A school district shall not be required to change its
15 high school graduation schedule or require graduating students
16 to return to school after graduation to demonstrate good faith
17 for the purposes of subsection (a).
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall
19 expire on June 30, 1979.
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