A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the salary of nationally certified school psychologists.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective for the 2005‑2006 school year, a school psychologist who is designated a Nationally Certified School Psychologist by the National School Psychology Certification Board shall receive an annual salary supplement of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), paid on a monthly basis, in addition to the compensation provided for a certified psychologist with his or her level of academic preparation.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of one million seven hundred thirty‑one thousand nine hundred dollars ($1,731,900) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of one million seven hundred thirty‑one thousand nine hundred dollars ($1,731,900) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.