§7945 Preemption and election of State nonapplicability

Summary

Federal rules override any state law that conflicts with them, except when a state law gives teachers extra protection from being sued. Those state laws stay in effect. A state can make the federal rules not apply to lawsuits against teachers in its own courts for claims that happened in that state. To do that, the state must pass a law that names this subsection as its authority, says the state is choosing that rule as of a specific date, and contains nothing else.