GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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HOUSE BILL 1795

Short Title:  Teacher Assistant Salary Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Warner; Barefoot, Bonner, Cansler, Haire, Hill, Hurley, Insko, Luebke, Miller, Mitchell, Morris, Oldham, Sherrill, Sossamon, Wainwright, Weiss, Womble, Wood, and Yongue.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 25, 2000

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PAY TEACHER ASSISTANTS AT LEAST FIFTY PERCENT OF THE SALARY OF A TEACHER WITH THE SAME YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-12(16) reads as rewritten:
"(16)	Power with Regard to Salary Schedules. – 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.
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, 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, including experience in other local school administrative units. 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.
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.
c1.	The salary schedules adopted by the State Board of Education and local boards of education for teacher assistants shall provide that the minimum salary paid to a teacher assistant shall be at least fifty percent (50%) of the salary of a teacher with an "A”certificate who has the same years of experience."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units, Allotment for Noncertified Personnel, the sum of nineteen million seven hundred eighty-two thousand nine hundred dollars ($19,782,900) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to implement this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2000.