GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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HOUSE BILL 914

Short Title:  Principal Salary Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Arnold; Baker, Barbee, Brown, Cansler, Clary, Culp, Gulley, Hiatt, McCombs, Morris, Preston, Rayfield, Russell, Thompson, and G. Wilson.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 5, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO INCREASE PRINCIPAL SALARIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of twenty-two million dollars ($22,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of twenty-two million dollars ($22,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to increase salaries of principals and assistant principals.  These funds shall be used to:
(1)	Modify the school-administrator salary schedule consistent with modifications in the teacher salary schedule,
(2)	Provide a bonus if the employee's school met or exceeded the projected levels of improvement in student performance for the prior school year, in accordance with the ABCs of Public Education Program, and
(3)	Provide a bonus if the employee's school met objectively measurable goals set by the local board of education for maintaining a safe and orderly school.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.