1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; prohibiting negotiation of teacher contracts during the 
1.3 	school year; repealing the January 15 penalty for failing to settle teacher 
1.4 	contracts;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 179A; 
1.5 	repealing Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 123B.05.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [179A.145] PERIOD DURING WHICH NEGOTIATIONS ARE 
1.8 	PROHIBITED.
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Prohibition. A school board and the exclusive representative of 
1.10 	teachers in a district may not meet and negotiate and may not enter into a contract during 
1.11 	the period beginning with the district's first student contact day in the fall and ending with 
1.12 	the last student contact day the next spring.
1.13 		Subd. 2.Exceptions. Subdivision 1 does not apply:
1.14 	(1) if the school board and the exclusive representative of teachers certify in 
1.15 	writing to the commissioner of mediation services that they have entered into a tentative 
1.16 	agreement before the first student contact day in the fall, to the extent the parties enter into 
1.17 	a final contract based on the tentative agreement certified to the commissioner;
1.18 	(2) during the period in which the school board postpones the first student contact 
1.19 	day from the regularly scheduled starting date;
1.20 	(3) if the school board and the exclusive representative agree, before the first student 
1.21 	contact day in the fall, to binding interest arbitration of items in dispute, to the extent the 
1.22 	parties enter into a contract to confirm the results of the arbitrator's decision; or
1.23 	(4) if the teachers in the district are on strike on the district's first student contact 
1.24 	day in the fall.
2.1 		Subd. 3.Relation to other law. This section supersedes any conflicting provisions 
2.2 	of other law.

2.3 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2009.

2.4 	Sec. 2.  REPEALER.
 2.5 	Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 123B.05, is repealed

2.6 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2009.