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In general, but not by way of limitation, consonant with other applicable statutory provisions, the state board of education shall:
(a) Adopt and maintain standards, criteria, guidelines or rules and regulations for the following:
(1) School libraries and other educational materials with the exception of textbooks;
(2) courses of study and curriculum;
(3) accreditation of schools including elementary and secondary, public and nonpublic;
(4) certification of administrators, teachers, counselors, school nurses and supervisors of school districts and of the state department of education and of teachers and administrators of nonpublic schools; and
(b) administer the laws of this state concerning the matters named in this section and all other matters relating to general supervision of the public schools and institutions under supervision of the state board of education.
The state board is hereby authorized to adopt rules and regulations not in conflict with law on any and all matters within its jurisdiction, except as is otherwise specifically provided by law.
The state board of education shall adopt rules and regulations as necessary to implement the provisions of this act on or before March 1, 2016. Such rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the standards for the use and reporting of emergency safety interventions as provided in K.S.A. 72-6152 through 72-6155, and amendments thereto.
(a) There is hereby established the emergency safety intervention task force. The task force shall consist of the 17 members appointed as follows:
(1) Two members shall be appointed by the state board of education, one of which shall be a member of the state board of education and one of which shall be an attorney for the department;
(2) two members shall be appointed by the disability rights center of Kansas;
(3) two members shall be appointed by families together inc., one of which shall be a parent of a child with a disability;
(4) two members shall be appointed by keys for networking, inc., one of which shall be a parent of a child with a disability;
(5) two members shall be appointed by the special education advisory council;
(6) two members shall be appointed by the Kansas association of special education administrators;
(7) two members shall be appointed by the executive director of the Kansas council on developmental disabilities, one of which shall be a parent of a child with a disability;
(8) two members shall be appointed by the Kansas association of school boards, one of which shall be an attorney for the association; and
(9) one member shall be appointed by the center for child health and development of the university of Kansas medical center, who shall be a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery in Kansas who is a practicing physician with experience treating and diagnosing individuals with disabilities, but who is not a staff member of the center for child health and development of the university of Kansas medical center.
(b) The emergency safety intervention task force shall study and review the use of emergency safety interventions and prepare a report on its findings and recommendations concerning the use of such interventions. The task force’s report shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature on or before January 20, 2016.
(c) The member of the task force who is also a member of the state board of education shall call an organizational meeting of the task force on or before August 1, 2015. At such organizational meeting the members shall elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson from the membership of the task force. The task force also shall consider dates for future meetings, the agenda for such meetings and the need for electing a facilitator to assist in discussions among the members of the task force.
(d) The task force may meet at any time and at any place within the state on the call of the chairperson. A quorum of the task force shall be eight* members. All actions of the task force shall be by motion adopted by a majority of those members present when there is a quorum.
(e) If approved by the legislative coordinating council, members of the task force attending meetings authorized by the task force shall be paid amounts for expenses, mileage and subsistence as provided in K.S.A. 75-3223(e), and amendments thereto.
(a) The state board of education shall prepare a strategy for identifying, developing, and implementing a mastery of basic reading skills program in kindergarten and each of grades one through three of school districts based upon the goal of mastery of basic reading skills by pupils upon completion of the third grade. In carrying out this directive, the state board shall:
(1) Identify state standards and outcomes of mastery of basic reading skills in kindergarten and each of grades one through three;
(2) prepare a plan for monitoring the progress of pupils in kindergarten and at each applicable grade level in achieving mastery of basic reading skills; and
(3) specify the means to be used for determining mastery of basic reading skills by each pupil upon completion of grade three.
(b) The state board’s strategy shall include a component for requiring school districts to provide interventions for pupils who are not making satisfactory progress toward mastering basic reading skills such as, but not limited to, a restructured school day, additional school days, summer school, or individualized instruction.
(c) The state board of education shall report to the 2001 legislature a strategy and proposed plan for implementing the mastery of basic reading skills program with development of standards during the 2001-02 school year and commencement of the plan in the 2002-03 school year. The state board report to the 2001 legislature shall include estimates of the cost to the state of implementing the program.
It shall be the duty of such appointee, immediately upon the filing of his bond as provided in the first [*] section of this act, to file with said clerk an affidavit that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office.
Except in those counties operating under the provisions of any consolidated law enforcement act, beginning with the general election in 1976, a sheriff shall be elected in each county, for four (4) years. Such sheriff shall, before entering upon the duties of the office, execute to the state of Kansas a good and sufficient corporate surety bond, issued by a company authorized to do business in Kansas in an amount fixed by the board of county commissioners of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Such bond, when approved, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk.
In all counties, the sheriff shall have authority to appoint so many special deputies as the sheriff deems proper and for whose official acts the sheriff shall be responsible. Before an appointment shall be made the sheriff or marshal of the district court shall have the right to demand an indemnity bond before any commission as special deputy shall be issued. The appointments may be revoked at the pleasure of the appointing officer, except that all appointments made by a sheriff pursuant to this section shall automatically be revoked at the time that such appointing sheriff’s service as sheriff concludes. Except as provided by K.S.A. 19-827, and amendments thereto, a special deputy appointed under this section shall not receive any payment, for services rendered, from public funds.
All officers elected or appointed under any law of the state of Kansas shall, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, as follows:
“I do solemnly swear [or affirm, as the case may be] that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Kansas, and faithfully discharge the duties of ______. So help me God.”
In each county, each elective county officer shall, before entering upon duties of his office give corporate surety to the state of Kansas and said county with a surety company duly qualified under the insurance laws of this state in an amount and upon terms and conditions as may be specified and provided by the county commissioners of said county. Any such elected official shall be deemed to have furnished surety if he is covered by a blanket bond purchased pursuant to this act.
The county commissioners in all counties may not later than November 1, 1968, and as necessary thereafter, designate which appointive officers or employees of said county shall be required to give surety to the state of Kansas and said county, having due regard for the duties and responsibilities of any such office or employment and the county commissioners shall require such surety in such amount or amounts and upon such terms and conditions as to the county commissioners shall seem necessary and proper. Any such appointive officer or employee shall be deemed to have furnished surety if he is covered by a blanket bond.
In determining which officers or employees shall be bonded, the county commissioners may make such determination by classes of officers and employees with due regard to the duties and responsibilities of officers and employees falling within such class a “blanket” surety contract purchased hereunder may cover both elected and appointed officers and employees and a “blanket” bond or bonds shall be purchased whenever the premium for such “blanket” bond is less than the aggregate of premiums chargeable for individual bonds.
(a) All surety contracts purchased pursuant to K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall be purchased by the county commissioners in the manner deemed necessary and proper and the premiums therefor shall be paid from the county general fund.
(b) When requested by the governing body of a municipality located within a county, all blanket surety contracts purchased pursuant to K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall cover the treasurer of such municipality. Such municipality shall reimburse the county for that portion of the premium of the blanket bond, the cost of which is attributable to the inclusion of the treasurer of such municipality under a blanket bond, purchased by the county pursuant to K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto. If a municipality is located in more than one county, the governing body of such municipality shall make such request to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the greater portion of the municipality is located to cover the municipality’s treasurer in the county’s blanket bond.
The board of county commissioners shall establish, by resolution, the procedure by which municipalities may request coverage under a blanket bond purchased by the county.
All bonds or surety contracts subject to this act shall be approved as to form by the county counselor or county attorney in counties not having a county counselor, and shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. A record shall be kept in the office of the county clerk giving the names of the officers or employees covered or a description of the class of officers or employees covered by each bond or surety contract purchased, the name of the company issuing the bond or surety contract, the contract number and the dates of the commencement and expiration of term thereof.
(a) Whenever any county officer or employee is required to furnish bond or surety as a prerequisite to employment, such requirement as to terms, conditions, penalty, amount, quality or type of surety shall be and are hereby deemed and defined to mean the furnishing of a bond or surety contract in the manner and under the provisions and requirements of K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto. Whenever any officer, board, commission, committee, department, authority, or any county agent or agency for whatever name called, shall be authorized by any law of this state to purchase any official bond, surety bond, blanket bond or surety contract upon any county officers or employees, such authority is hereby transferred and conferred upon the county commissioners of the county by this act and such authority so transferred and conferred shall be exercised by the county commissioners in the manner and under the provisions and requirements prescribed by K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the office of county treasurer. Surety bonds shall be provided for county treasurers as is otherwise provided by law.
(b) Whenever the treasurer of any municipality, defined in K.S.A. 19-4207, is required by law to purchase any official bond, surety bond or surety contract, such requirement shall be fulfilled by the furnishing of a bond or surety contract in the manner provided by K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto. The authority to purchase such bond or surety contract is hereby transferred and conferred upon the board of county commissioners of the county in which such municipality is located. The authority transferred and conferred shall be exercised by the board of county commissioners in the manner provided by K.S.A. 19-4201 et seq., and amendments thereto.
When used in K.S.A. 19-4204 and 19-4206, and amendments thereto, “municipality” means township, city, school district or other political or taxing subdivision of the state, or any agency, authority, institution or other instrumentality thereof.
The condition of such bond shall be in substance as follows: “Whereas, the above bounden ______ was elected to the office of county treasurer of the county of _________, on the ____ day of _______; now, therefore, the condition of this obligation is such, that if the said _________ and his deputy, and all persons employed in his office, shall faithfully and promptly perform the duties of said office, and if the said _________ and his deputies shall pay, according to law, all moneys which shall come to his hands as treasurer, and will render a just and true account thereof whenever required by said board of commissioners or by any provision of law, and shall deliver over to his successors in office or to any other person authorized by laws to receive the same, all moneys, books, papers and other things appertaining thereto or belonging to his said office, then the above obligation to be void; otherwise to be in full force and effect.”
The county treasurer may secure a corporate surety bond or bonds issued by a company authorized to do business in this state covering any or all deputies, assistants and employees in an amount or amounts as may be recommended by the county treasurer and approved by the board of county commissioners. The bond or bonds shall be filed and approved in the same manner as the bond of the county treasurer. Cost of the bond or bonds covering deputies, assistants or employees shall be paid from the county general fund.
Within ten days after receiving a certificate of the order appointing him to the office specified in the first [*] section of this act, and after his confirmation by the county board as provided herein, it shall be the duty of such person to file with the district clerk of his county a bond, with at least two sufficient sureties, in the sum of three thousand dollars, to the proper county, conditioned that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, which bond and sureties thereon shall be approved by the district court of the proper county, which approval shall be made part of the records of said court: Provided, That a bond conditioned as hereinbefore recited, and executed by a bonding company authorized to do business under the laws of this state, shall, upon approval of the board of county commissioners, be construed to be and constitute sufficient surety.
Within 10 days after receiving a certificate of the order of appointment to the office specified in K.S.A. 19-620, and amendments thereto, it shall be the duty of such appointee to file with the district clerk of such appointee’s county a bond, with a sufficient surety, in the sum of $20,000, to the proper county, conditioned that such appointee will faithfully perform the duties of the office of county auditor, which bond and sureties thereon shall be approved by the district court of the proper county, which approval shall be made part of the records of such court. A bond conditioned as hereinbefore recited, and executed by a bonding company authorized to do business under the laws of this state, shall upon approval of the district judge be construed to be and constitute sufficient surety, and the premium on such bond shall be paid by the county.
Within ten (10) days after receiving a certificate of the order appointing him to the office of county auditor, it shall be the duty of such person to file with the clerk of the district court, a bond in an amount prescribed by the district court. Such bond shall be a corporate surety bond executed by a bonding company authorized to do business in the state of Kansas and conditioned that the auditor will faithfully perform the duties of his office. The premium on said bond shall be paid by the county.
The condition of such bond shall be in substance as follows: “Whereas, the above bounden ____ was elected to the office of sheriff of the county of ____, on the ____ day of ____; now the condition of this obligation is such, that if the said ____ shall well and faithfully perform and execute the duties of the office of sheriff of said county of ____, during his continuance in office, by virtue of said election, without fraud, deceit, or oppression, and shall pay over all moneys that may come into his hands as such sheriff, and shall deliver to his successor all writs, papers and other things pertaining to his office, which may be so required by law, then the above obligation shall be void; otherwise, to be and remain in full force and effect.”
Each elective state officer, before entering upon the duties of office, shall give corporate surety in an amount and upon terms and conditions, as may be specified and provided by the committee created by this act. Such surety shall be furnished by a company duly qualified under the insurance laws of this state. Any such elected official shall be deemed to have furnished surety if he or she is covered by a blanket bond purchased pursuant to this act.
In each county, each elective county officer shall, before entering upon duties of his office give corporate surety to the state of Kansas and said county with a surety company duly qualified under the insurance laws of this state in an amount and upon terms and conditions as may be specified and provided by the county commissioners of said county. Any such elected official shall be deemed to have furnished surety if he is covered by a blanket bond purchased pursuant to this act.
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