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AN ACT concerning professional negotiation between boards of educa-
  tion and professional employees; affecting the definition of terms and
  conditions of professional service; amending K.S.A. 72-5413 and re-
  pealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
  Section 1.  K.S.A. 72-5413 is hereby amended to read as follows: 72-
5413. As used in this act and in acts amendatory thereof or supplemental
thereto:
  (a)  The term ``persons'' includes one or more individuals, organiza-
tions, associations, corporations, boards, committees, commissions, agen-
cies, or their representatives.
  (b)  ``Board of education'' means the board of education of any school
district, the board of control of any area vocational-technical school, and
the board of trustees of any community college.
  (c)  ``Professional employee'' means any person employed by a board
of education in a position which requires a certificate issued by the state
board of education or employed by a board of education in a professional,
educational or instructional capacity, but shall not mean any such person
who is an administrative employee.
  (d)  ``Administrative employee'' means, in the case of a school district,
any person who is employed by a board of education in an administrative
capacity and who is fulfilling duties for which an administrator's certificate
is required under K.S.A. 72-7513, and amendments thereto; and, in the
case of an area vocational-technical school or community college, any
person who is employed by the board of control or the board of trustees
in an administrative capacity and who is acting in that capacity and who
has authority, in the interest of the board of control or the board of
trustees, to hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, recall, promote, discharge, as-
sign, reward or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them
or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend a preponder-
ance of such actions, if in connection with the foregoing, the exercise of
such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires
the use of independent judgment.
  (e)  ``Professional employees' organizations'' means any one or more
organizations, agencies, committees, councils or groups of any kind in
which professional employees participate, and which exist for the pur-
pose, in whole or part, of engaging in professional negotiation with boards
of education with respect to the terms and conditions of professional
service.
  (f)  ``Representative'' means any professional employees' organization
or any person it authorizes or designates to act in its behalf or any person
a board of education authorizes or designates to act in its behalf.
  (g)  ``Professional negotiation'' means meeting, conferring, consulting
and discussing in a good faith effort by both parties to reach agreement
with respect to the terms and conditions of professional service.
  (h)  ``Mediation'' means the effort through interpretation and advice
by an impartial third party to assist in reconciling a dispute concerning
terms and conditions of professional service which arose in the course of
professional negotiation between a board of education or its representa-
tives and representatives of the recognized professional employees' or-
ganization.
  (i)  ``Fact-finding'' means the investigation by an individual or board
of a dispute concerning terms and conditions of professional service which
arose in the course of professional negotiation, and the submission of a
report by such individual or board to the parties to such dispute which
includes a determination of the issues involved, findings of fact regarding
such issues, and the recommendation of the fact-finding individual or
board for resolution of the dispute.
  (j)  ``Strike'' means an action taken for the purpose of coercing a
change in the terms and conditions of professional service or the rights,
privileges or obligations thereof, through any failure by concerted action
with others to report for duty including, but not limited to, any work
stoppage, slowdown, or refusal to work.
  (k)  ``Lockout'' means action taken by a board of education to provoke
interruptions of or prevent the continuity of work normally and usually
performed by the professional employees for the purpose of coercing
professional employees into relinquishing rights guaranteed by this act
and the act of which this section is amendatory.
  (l)  ``Terms and conditions of professional service'' means (1) salaries
and wages, including pay for duties under supplemental contracts; hours
and amounts of work; assignment and transfer procedures; vacation al-
lowance, holiday, sick, extended, sabbatical, and other leave, and number
of holidays; retirement; insurance benefits; wearing apparel; pay for over-
time; jury duty; grievance procedure;, including binding arbitration of
grievances; evaluation criteria; disciplinary procedure; resignations; ter-
mination and nonrenewal of contracts; reemployment of professional em-
ployees; terms and form of the individual professional employee contract;
probationary period; professional employee appraisal procedures; each of
the foregoing being a term and condition of professional service, regard-
less of its impact on the employee or on the operation of the educational
system; and (2) matters which relate to privileges to be granted the rec-
ognized professional employees' organization including, but not limited
to, voluntary payroll deductions; use of school or college facilities for
meetings; dissemination of information regarding the professional nego-
tiation process and related matters to members of the bargaining unit on
school or college premises through direct contact with members of the
bargaining unit, the use of bulletin boards on or about the facility, and
the use of the school or college mail system to the extent permitted by
law; reasonable leaves of absence for members of the bargaining unit for
organizational purposes such as engaging in professional negotiation and
partaking of instructional programs properly related to the representation
of the bargaining unit; any of the foregoing privileges which are granted
the recognized professional employees' organization through the profes-
sional negotiation process shall not be granted to any other professional
employees' organization; and (3) such other matters as the parties mu-
tually agree upon as properly related to professional service. Nothing in
this act, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, shall au-
thorize the diminution of any right, duty or obligation of either the pro-
fessional employee or the board of education which have been fixed by
statute or by the constitution of this state. Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this subsection, the fact that any matter may be the subject
of a statute or the constitution of this state does not preclude negotiation
thereon so long as the negotiation proposal would not prevent the ful-
fillment of the statutory or constitutional objective. Matters which relate
to the duration of the school term, and specifically to consideration and
determination by a board of education of the question of the development
and adoption of a policy to provide for a school term consisting of school
hours, are not included within the meaning of terms and conditions of
professional service and are not subject to professional negotiation.
  (m)  ``Secretary'' means the secretary of human resources or a desig-
nee thereof.
  (n)  ``Statutory declaration of impasse date'' means June 1 in the cur-
rent school year.
  (o)  ``Supplemental contracts'' means contracts for employment duties
other than those services covered in the principal or primary contract of
employment of the professional employee and shall include, but not be
limited to, such services as coaching, supervising, directing and assisting
extracurricular activities, chaperoning, ticket-taking, lunchroom supervi-
sion, and other similar and related activities.
  Sec. 2.  K.S.A. 72-5413 is hereby repealed.
  Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.