SB59 - Revises provisions governing the licensing of educational personnel. (BDR 34-274)

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AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting licensed teachers and educational personnel from engaging in certain activities that constitute sexual impropriety with the grooming of a pupil; authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to place an administrative hold on the license of a person who commits certain acts that may constitute grounds for disciplinary action; providing requirements governing the placement of an administrative hold; exempting a person with an administrative hold on his or her license from provisions governing the lapse of a license while school is in session; authorizing the State Board to suspend or revoke the license of a person who engages in grooming or sexual impropriety or who seeks or obtains new employment with a school district or charter school while the license of the licensee is subject to an administrative hold; eliminating provisions authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue a provisional license to a person pending the receipt of certain criminal history reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.