A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to extend the cutoff date for school employees to qualify for certain education‑based salary supplements.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 8.22 of S.L. 2013‑360 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 8.22. Notwithstanding Section 35.11 of this act, only the following teachers and instructional support personnel shall be paid on the "M" salary schedule or receive a salary supplement for academic preparation at the six‑year degree level or at the doctoral degree level for the 2014‑2015 school year and subsequent school years:
(1)	Certified school nurses and instructional support personnel in positions for which a master's degree is required for licensure.
(2)	Teachers and instructional support personnel who were paid on that salary schedule or received that salary supplement prior to the 2014‑2015 school year.
(3)	Teachers and instructional support personnel who complete a degree for which they completed at least one class prior to July 1, 2013.
(4)	Teachers and instructional personnel who do not qualify under subdivisions (1) through (3) of this subsection but who spend at least seventy percent (70%) of their work time in either of the following:
a.	Classroom instruction in the field and subject of their graduate academic preparation. Most of the teachers' remaining time shall be spent in one or more of the following: mentoring teachers, doing demonstration lessons for teachers, writing curricula, developing and leading staff development programs for teachers.
b.	Work within the employee's area of graduate academic preparation."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of eighteen million seven hundred thousand dollars ($18,700,000) for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year to extend the cutoff date for school employees to qualify for certain education‑based salary supplements by one year in accordance with Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2014.