| Chapter 391 |
| 2016 -- S 3074 Enacted 07/09/2016 |
| 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 |
| 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 who elect to |
| come or remain under it. |
| (b) All positions that are exempt from the Mmerit Ssystem Llaw, 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 Mmerit |
| Ssystem Llaw, 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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