A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to promote teacher retention by increasing the salaries of teachers with less than six years of experience.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of seventeen million eight hundred thousand dollars ($17,800,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of seventeen million eight hundred thousand dollars ($17,800,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to increase the salaries of teachers on the first six steps of the teacher salary schedule.
SECTION 2.  The first nine steps of the salary schedule for "A" Teachers for the 2005-2006 school year shall be as follows:
Years of	"A"	NBPTS
Experience	Teachers	Certification
	0	$2,650	N/A
	1	$2,715	N/A
	2	$2,790	N/A
	3	$2,875	$3,220
	4	$2,985	$3,343
	5	$3,085	$3,455
	SECTION 3.  The first six steps of the salary schedule for "M" Teachers for the 2005-2006 school year shall be as follows:
Years of	"M"	NBPTS
Experience	Teachers	Certification
	0	$2,915	N/A
	1	$2,986	N/A
	2	$3,069	N/A
	3	$3,162	$3,541
	4	$3,283	$3,677
	5	$3,393	$3,801
SECTION 4.  All other increases in the teacher salary schedules for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year shall be based on the salary schedules as modified in this act.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.