A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT regarding the placement of assistant principals on the school‑based administrator salary schedule.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  A principal or assistant principal shall be placed on the step on the school‑based administrator salary schedule that reflects total number of years of experience as a certificated employee of the public schools and an additional step for every three years of experience as a principal or assistant principal. A principal or assistant principal shall also continue to receive any additional State‑funded percentage increases earned for the 1997‑1998, 1998‑1999, and 1999‑2000 school years for improvement in student performance or maintaining a safe and orderly school.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of one million nine hundred seventy‑three thousand six hundred fifty‑three dollars ($1,973,653) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million nine hundred seventy‑three thousand six hundred fifty‑three dollars ($1,973,653) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to implement this act.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.