A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to add steps to the teacher salary schedules.
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 one hundred twenty‑four million dollars ($124,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to add six steps to the teacher salary schedules.  There shall be a salary increment of five percent (5%) between each of the new steps and the prior step.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.