A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT appropriating funds to establish a fair minimum wage for noncertified public school personnel whose salaries are supported from the state's general fund.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of eight million five hundred eighty‑two thousand seventy‑three dollars ($8,582,073) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to provide that permanent full‑time noncertified public school employees whose salaries are supported from the State's General Fund shall be paid a minimum salary of at least twenty thousand one hundred twelve dollars ($20,112) per year. Permanent, full‑time employees working on a schedule requiring less than 12 months' service per year and permanent part‑time employees, whose salaries are supported from the State's General Fund, shall be paid the minimum salary pro rata.
SECTION 1.(b)  The fair minimum wage established by this act shall be calculated and awarded after any across‑the‑board salary increases authorized by the General Assembly.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.