A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the minimum salary of teacher assistants to the equivalent salary of Pay Grade 56 for state employees.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective July 1, 2006, permanent full‑time teacher assistants whose salaries are supported from the State's General Fund shall be paid a minimum salary of at least twenty thousand two hundred sixty‑eight dollars ($20,268) per year. This is the equivalent of the salary of a State employee at Pay Grade 56.  Permanent, full‑time teacher assistants working on a schedule requiring less than 12 months' service per year, whose salaries are supported from the State's General Fund, shall be paid the minimum salary pro rata.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of two million seven hundred six thousand five hundred thirty‑seven dollars ($2,706,537) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.