STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 2181

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator RUIZ)

ADOPTED: MAY 13, 2024

      These Senate floor amendments provide that a person hired by a school district, charter school, or renaissance school project is not required to comply with the State’s current residency requirement for a period of three years provided that the position with the school district, charter school, or renaissance school project had been open and advertised to State residents for a period of three months before the out-of-State resident was hired; and provided that the person hired by the school district, charter school, or renaissance school project was not a State resident employed by a school district, charter school, or renaissance school project in the State at any time in the one-year period preceding the enactment of the bill or during the three-year period following the effective date of the bill prior to qualifying for employment pursuant to the residency requirement exemption in the bill.

      The floor amendments also provide that an out-of-State resident hired under the provisions of the bill is to obtain residency in the State within three years of being hired by a school district, charter school, or renaissance school project.