SCHOOLS-TEACHERS-SICK LEAVE
CHAPTER 274
S.B. No. 212
An Act relating to schools; providing for sick leave of teach-
ers; amending 70 O.S.1961, § 6--3; specifying minimun
sick leave benefits which school districts must provide for
teachers; repealing conflicting laws; and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:
Section 1. 70 O.S.1961, § 6-3, is hereby amended to read as follows:
§ 6--3. Sick leave-Hospital and medical benefits-Insurance
(a) The board of education of each school district in the state shall
provide for sick leave for all teachers employed in the district and shall
pay such teachers the full amount of their contract salaries during any
absence from their regular school duties for a period of time and under
such conditions as the board may determine, but not less than the
minimum benefits hereafter specified. Provided, the board of education
may provide hospital and medical benefits, and sick, accident, health
and life insurance or any of the aforesaid for any or all of its employees.
(b) Until each district adopts an appropriate plan for sick leave
adopted by the school district, each teacher employed by the district may,
without loss of salary, be absent from his duties due to illness for not
more than ten school days during each school year. Unused sick leave
shall be cumulative up to a total of sixty days, but cumulative sick leave
shall not be transferable to another district and shall expire if the teacher
leaves the employment of the school district in which accumulated. The
school district may exclude not more than the first two days of absence
due to illness from such sick leave benefits as a part of its plan.
(c) The plan of each school district for sick leave benefits may in-
clude other terms and conditions, but shall not provide less sick leave
benefits than those prescribed herein. Hospital and medical insurance
proceeds may not be charged against sick leave benefits, but the proceeds
received by the teacher from any insurance provided by the district for
loss of compensable time may be charged against sick leave benefits.
Section 2. Repealer
All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
Approved June 24, 1965. Emergency.

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