A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NEW SALARY SCHEDULE FOR NONCERTIFIED PERSONNEL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  Effective July 1, 2008, the following salary schedule shall be applicable to noncertified personnel of the public schools who are classified as teacher assistants:

10‑Month Salary Schedule
2008‑2009

    Steps		High School	Associates Degree	Bachelor's
		Diploma	or Hours Equivalent	Degree

	0	$18,209	$20,030	$23,034
	1	18,755	20,631	23,725
	2	19,318	21,250	24,437
	3	19,897	21,887	25,170
	4	20,494	22,544	25,925
	5	21,109	23,220	26,703
	6	21,742	23,917	27,504
	7	22,395	24,634	28,329
	8	23,066	25,373	29,179
	9	23,758	26,134	30,054
	10	24,471	26,918	30,956

SECTION 1.(b)  For the 2008‑2009 school year, teacher assistants shall be placed on the salary schedule on the basis of years of experience as follows:

Years of Experience	Step on the 2008‑2009
as a Teacher Assistant	Salary Schedule
	0‑3	0
	4‑5	1
	6‑7	2
	8‑10	3
	11‑13	4
	14‑16	5
	17‑19	6
	20‑22	7
	23‑25	8
	26‑28	9
	29‑30	10

No teacher assistant's salary shall be reduced as a result of placement on the salary schedule, and no teacher assistant shall receive less than a seven hundred fifty dollar ($750.00) salary increase as a result of placement on the salary schedule for the 2008‑2009 school year.
Any teacher assistant currently being paid higher than years of experience earned shall be held harmless until his or her salary is commensurate with years of experience.
SECTION 1.(c)  The State Board of Education shall adopt criteria to determine and collect current work experience credit.  All work experience as a teacher assistant in any public school within the State or in another state shall be used in determining total work experience credit.  The State Board of Education shall determine the amount and to what degree other comparable work experience counts towards teacher assistant work experience credit.
SECTION 1.(d)  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules necessary to implement this act.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of twenty‑nine million twenty‑five thousand fifty dollars ($29,025,050) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.