HB 17-1359

House Bill 17-1359 allows the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) to exempt certain positions from state personnel rules. This means that roles like directors, consultants, supervisors, and instructors can be managed differently by the CDE rather than following standard state employment regulations. The bill lets the commissioner of education decide which jobs get this exemption instead of just the state board of education. It also requires yearly reports to track these exempt positions. Since the bill has been signed, it is now law and affects how the CDE manages its staff in specific roles.

Official Summary

Current statutory law provides the state board of education (board) with the discretion to exempt some positions in the department of education (department) from the state personnel system if the positions are determined by the board to be director, consultant, supervisor, or instructor positions. The bill authorizes the board to delegate the authority to make these determinations to the commissioner of education. The bill specifies that any employee holding a position determined by the board or by the commissioner of education, as the board's designee, to be a director, a consultant, a supervisor, or an instructor position on or before September 1, 2017, remains exempt from the state personnel system so long as the employee continues to hold that position. The board or the commissioner of education, as the board's designee, is required to determine which positions in the department meet the criteria to be exempt from the state personnel system; except that the board may not determine that a position is exempt while it is held by an employee in the state personnel system. On or before December 31 of each year, the commissioner of education is required to submit a report to the state personnel director listing all positions in the department that are exempt, pursuant to the board's statutory authority, from the state personnel system. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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