(b) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this subsection, every meeting, conference, consultation and discussion between a professional employees' organization or its representatives and a board of education or its representatives during the course of professional negotiation and every hearing conducted by the secretary under K.S.A. 72-5426, and amendments thereto, for determination of the question of the existence of impasse is subject to the provisions of the Kansas open meetings law, and any amendments or supplements thereto. Meetings, conferences, consultations and discussions held by the secretary under K.S.A. 72-5426, and amendments thereto, for investigation of the question of the existence of impasse, and meetings, conferences, consultations and discussions held during the course of and in connection with, and the meeting required at the conclusion of, impasse resolution proceedings, as provided for in K.S.A. 72-5427 and 72-5428, and amendments to such sections, are specifically made exempt from the provisions of the Kansas open meetings law, and any amendments or supplements thereto.
(c) Nothing in this act, or the act of which this section is amendatory, shall be construed to authorize a strike by professional employees.
(d) Any agreement lawfully made under the provisions of this act, or the act of which this section is amendatory, may be adopted by reference and made a part of the employment contract between any professional employee of the applicable negotiating unit and a board of education for a period of not to exceed three years.
History: L. 1970, ch. 284, § 11; L. 1977, ch. 248, § 12; L. 1980, ch. 220, § 8; L. 1986, ch. 269, § 1; July 1.