Amend  the amendment, H-1218, to House File 525 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking lines 2 through 12 and inserting: 
   <___.  Page 2, line 15, after<insurance.> by inserting <However, for each fiscal year, this paragraph shall not apply to public employees represented by a certified employee organization who are teachers licensed under chapter 272 and who are employed by a public employer which is a school district or area education agency if the average salary of teachers in the state was ranked below twenty-fifth in the country in a nationally recognized study comparing state average teacher salaries among all fifty states released in the previous fiscal year.>>

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KEARNS of Lee