GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 562

Short Title:  Sick Leave Credit/Some Staff Dev.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Warner; Bowman and Cummings.
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Referred to:  Education.
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March 25, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PERMIT TEACHERS TO CONVERT SOME ANNUAL LEAVE DAYS LOST DUE TO STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES TO SICK LEAVE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 115C-302(a)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	Academic Teachers. – Regular state-allotted teachers shall be employed for a period of 10 calendar months.  Salary payments to regular state-allotted teachers shall be made monthly at the end of each calendar month of service:  Provided, that teachers employed for a period of 10 calendar months in year-round schools shall be paid in 12 equal installments:  Provided further, that any individual teacher who is not employed in a year-round school may be paid in 12 monthly installments if the teacher so requests on or before the first day of the school year.  Such request shall be filed in the local school administrative unit which employs the teacher.  The payment of the annual salary in 12 installments instead of 10 shall not increase or decrease said annual salary nor in any other way alter the contract made between the teacher and the said local school administrative unit; nor shall such payment apply to any teacher who is employed for a period of less than 10 months.  Included within the 10 calendar months employment shall be annual vacation leave at the same rate provided for State employees, computed at one twelfth (1/12) of the annual rate for State employees for each calendar month of employment; which shall be provided by each local board of education at a time when students are not scheduled to be in regular attendance.  Included within the 10 calendar months employment each local board of education shall designate the same or an equivalent number of legal holidays occurring within the period of employment for academic teachers as those designated by the State Personnel Commission for State employees; on a day that employees are required to report for a workday but pupils are not required to attend school due to inclement weather, a teacher may elect not to report due to hazardous travel conditions and to take one of his annual vacation days or to make up the day at a time agreed upon by the employee and his immediate supervisor or principal.  Within policy adopted by the State Board of Education, each local board of education shall develop rules and regulations designating what additional portion of the 10 calendar months not devoted to classroom teaching, holidays, or annual leave shall apply to service rendered before the opening of the school term, during the school term, and after the school term and to fix and regulate the duties of state-allotted teachers during said period, but in no event shall the total number of workdays exceed 200 days.  The school building-level plan approved by the local board of education in accordance with G.S. 115C-238.3(b1) and by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in accordance with G.S. 115C-238.6(a) may require all instructional personnel to participate in staff development and training for up to 10 days of the 200 workdays.  Employees who would otherwise have excess accumulated annual leave canceled on June 30 of a year because they are required to participate in these staff development and training days may convert to sick leave the lesser of five days and the number of days that would be cancelled due to required participation in staff development and training.  Local boards of education shall consult with the employed public school personnel in the development of the 10-calendar-months schedule."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.