GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1599*

Short Title:  Noncertified School Emp'ee Salaries.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Gray, Barnes, Black, Esposito, Fussell, Oldham, Rogers; Cummings, Bowman, Thompson, Warner, Sexton, and J. Preston.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 25, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE METHOD BY WHICH NONCERTIFIED PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ARE PLACED ON A SALARY SCHEDULE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-12(16) reads as rewritten:
"(16)	Power with Regard to Salary Schedules. – 
a.	Support personnel refers to all public school employees who are not required by statute or regulation to be certified in order to be employed.  The State Board of Education is authorized and empowered to adopt all necessary rules for full implementation of all schedules to the extent that State funds are made available for support personnel.
b.	Salary schedules for the following public school support personnel shall be adopted by the State Board of Education: school finance officer, office support personnel, property and cost clerks, teacher assistants, maintenance supervisors, custodial personnel, and transportation personnel. The Board shall classify these support positions in terms of uniform pay grades included in the salary schedule of the State Personnel Commission.
		By the end of the third payroll period of the 1995-96 fiscal year, local boards of education shall place State-allotted office support personnel, teacher assistants, and custodial personnel on the salary schedule adopted by the State Board of Education so that the average salary paid is the State-allotted amount for the category.  In placing employees on the salary schedule, the local board shall consider the education, training, and experience of each employee.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that a local school administrative unit not fail to employ an employee who was employed for the prior school year in order to implement the provisions of this sub-subdivision.   A local board of education is in compliance with this sub-subdivision if the average salary paid is at least ninety-five percent (95%) of the State-allotted amount for the category at the end of the third payroll period of the 1995-96 fiscal year, and at least ninety-eight percent (98%) of the State-allotted amount for the category at the end of the third payroll period of each subsequent fiscal year. The Department of Public Instruction shall provide technical assistance to local school administrative units regarding the implementation of this sub-subdivision.
				The State Board of Education shall report to the General Assembly, prior to March 31, 1995, and March 31, 1996, on the implementation of this sub-subdivision.
c.	Salary schedules for other support personnel, including but not limited to maintenance and school food service personnel, shall be adopted by the State Board of Education. The Board shall classify these support positions in terms of uniform pay grades included in the salary schedule of the State Personnel Commission. These schedules shall apply if the local board of education does not adopt a salary schedule of its own for personnel paid from other than State appropriations."
Sec. 2.  Beginning with the 1994-95 fiscal year, the State Board of Education shall allot salary funds for State-allotted school custodian positions on the basis of one thousand two hundred nine dollars ($1,209) a month for each position plus any salary increment authorized for school custodians by the General Assembly.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.