A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modify the teacher salary schedule to ensure that all teachers receive an annual increment and to appropriate funds for that purpose.
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 five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to provide for an annual increment for employees who are at step 30+ on the teacher salary schedule.
It is the goal of the General Assembly to add a step to the teacher salary schedule each year for five additional years at which time the highest step on the teacher salary schedule will be 35+.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.