A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to provide a salary supplement for teachers with academic credit BEYOND that required for a masters degree.
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 four million dollars ($4,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to provide a salary supplement for teachers paid on the masters degree salary schedule who have at least 30 hours of academic credit in addition to that required for the masters degree.  These teachers shall receive a salary supplement of one hundred twenty‑six dollars ($126.00) per month in addition to the compensation provided for certified personnel of the public schools who are classified as master teachers.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.