A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require the state board of education to revise certain position classifications and to provide additional information on the cost of revisions of salary grades and salary ranges for transportation personnel.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The State Board of Education shall reclassify the below transportation personnel positions as follows:
(1)	Transportation Director I to Assistant Director – Transportation.
(2)	Transportation Director II to Assistant Director – Transportation.
(3)	Transportation Director III to Assistant Director – Transportation.
(4)	Transportation Director IV to Transportation Director.
(5)	Transportation Director V to Transportation Director.
(6)	Transportation Director VI to Transportation Director.
(7)	Transportation Director VII to Transportation Director.
(8)	Transportation Director VIII to Senior Director – Transportation.
(9)	Transportation Director IX to Senior Director – Transportation.
(10)	Transportation Director X to Executive Director – Transportation.
SECTION 2.  The State Board of Education shall establish the following additional transportation personnel position classifications, based on existing positions:
(1)	Cost Clerk/Inventory Specialist I.
(2)	Cost Clerk/Inventory Specialist II.
(3)	TIMS Data Manager I.
(4)	TIMS Data Manager II.
(5)	TIMS Coordinator.
(6)	Receptionist/Office Support I.
(7)	Receptionist/Office Support II.
(8)	Transportation Mech. Supv. II.
(9)	Transportation Coordinator.
SECTION 3.  The State Board of Education shall direct the Department of Public Instruction to survey local schools administrative units on the economic impact of potential revisions to the salary grades and ranges for the following transportation personnel positions, including positions reclassified by this act. The survey shall determine the total salary for current employees under the potential salary grades and ranges, assuming that any employee who would receive a reduction in pay as a result of the revisions be held harmless from the reduction and continue at that employee's current salary, and shall compare that amount to the total salary for the same employees under the current salary grades and ranges. The potential salary grades and ranges shall be based on the ranges established by the State Human Resources Commission for the following General Salary Schedule grades:
Position	Grade
Transportation Safety Assist.	GN03
Receptionist/Office Support I	GN03
Bus Driver	GN04
Vehicle Operator	GN04
Receptionist/Office Support II	GN05
Transportation Mechanic I	GN06
Cost Clerk/Inventory Specialist I	GN06
TIMS Data Manager I	GN06
Cost Clerk/Inventory Specialist II	GN07
TIMS Data Manager II	GN07
Transportation Mechanic II	GN08
Transportation Mech. Supv. I	GN09
Transportation Mechanic III	GN10
TIMS Coordinator	GN10
Transportation Coordinator	GN10
Transportation Mech. Supv. II	GN11
Assistant Director – Transportation	GN12
Transportation Director	GN15
Senior Director – Transportation	GN17
Executive Director – Transportation	GN18
SECTION 4.  Local boards of education shall report the information required by Section 3 of this act to the Department of Public Instruction by November 15, 2019. The information shall be compiled by the Department of Public Instruction to determine the total costs, if any, of the salary grade and revisions, and shall report that information to the State Board of Education, Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee, and Fiscal Research Division by February 15, 2020.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.