A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the joint legislative education oversight committee to study ways to facilitate job sharing by public school teachers.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall study ways to facilitate job sharing by teachers.  In the course of the study, the Committee shall consider the shortage of teachers faced by some schools and in certain areas of certification, the need to make teaching an attractive option for well-qualified teachers who do not wish to work full time, administrative and fiscal limitations on job-sharing arrangements, and limitations on State benefits, including insurance and retirement benefits, for teachers who are job sharing.
The Committee shall report the results of this study to the 2003 General Assembly.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2002.