GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1523

Short Title:  Substitute Teacher Pay.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Winner; and Lee.

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Referred to:  Education/Higher Education.

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June 1, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO LINK PAY RAISES FOR SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS TO PAY RAISES FOR TEACHERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-12(8) reads as rewritten:
"(8)	Power to Make Provisions for Sick Leave and for Substitute Teachers. – The Board shall provide for sick leave with pay for all public school employees in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for necessary substitutes on account of sick leave and other teacher absences.
		The minimum pay for a substitute teacher who holds a teaching certificate shall be paid at seventy-five percent (75%) of the daily pay rate of an entry-level teacher with an 'A' certificate.  The minimum pay for a substitute teacher who does not hold a teaching certificate shall be paid at sixty percent (60%) of the daily pay rate of an entry-level teacher with an 'A' certificate.
		Local board of education may use State funds allocated for substitute teachers to hire full-time substitute teachers.
		If a teacher assistant acts as a substitute teacher, the salary of the teacher assistant for the day shall be the same as the daily salary of an entry-level teacher with an 'A' certificate.
		The Board may provide to each local school administrative unit not exceeding one percent (1%) of the cost of instructional services for the purpose of providing substitute teachers for those on sick leave as authorized by law or by regulations of the Board, but not exceeding the provisions made for other State employees."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of fifteen million seven hundred seventy-six thousand two hundred eighty dollars ($15,776,280) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to implement Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1998.