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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | May 9, 2013 01:04 PM |
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| From: | Representative John A. Lawrence |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Outlaw School Directors from Voting to Hike Their Spouse’s Salary |
| Dear Colleagues – In the near future, I intend to introduce legislation that will prohibit school board members from voting on union contracts that increase the salary of a family member living in their own household. Current law allows for a school director to vote on contracts negotiated with a local education association (union) if the school director’s spouse is teacher within the school district. In practice, a school director can vote to hike his own household’s take-home pay. Such a circumstance recently occurred in my district, where a new contract was approved by a 5-4 margin, with one of the affirmative votes coming from a school director with a spouse employed by the school district. As many contracts include clauses that increase compensation or benefits for affected employees, in my view this situation presents a clear conflict of interest. A school director should not have the ability to vote to hike the salary of members of his or her own household. I would appreciate your support of this initiative. |
Introduced as HB1994