AN ACT relating to classified employees' benefits.
     Amend KRS 158.070 to permit public school employees other than teachers to participate in statewide professional meetings with substitutes when needed; amend KRS 161.011 to define "progressive discipline" as a process to deal with job-related behavior that does not meet expected and communicated performance standards; establish due process and hearing procedures for any classified employee notified that his or her contract will not be renewed; require the Office of the Attorney General to appoint a hearing office upon request of the commissioner of education; establish the right of appeal to the Circuit Court in the county where the school district is located; provide service credit for limited status employees on approved military leave; provide reemployment or reinstatement for employees inducted into the Armed Forces of the United States; permit local districts to provide the employer's contribution toward the purchase of the state's medical insurance program; permit a school district to pay the member contribution and accrued interest to the Kentucky Retirement System for members who return to the district after military service; and provide one year of service credit on the district's salary schedule for classified employees in military service.

     Jan 11-introduced in House
     Jan 12-to Education (H)