A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to reinstate education‑based salary supplements for TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 8.22 of S.L. 2013‑360, as amended by Section 8.3 of S.L. 2014‑100, is repealed.
SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, State Board of Education Policy, TCP‑A‑006, as it was in effect on June 30, 2013, shall be used to determine (i) whether teachers and instructional support personnel are paid on the "M" salary schedule and (ii) whether they receive a salary supplement for academic preparation at the six‑year or doctoral degree level.
SECTION 3.(a)  Appropriation. – There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to reinstate education‑based salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel in accordance with this act.
SECTION 3.(b)  State Budget Act Applies. – The provisions of the State Budget Act, Chapter 143C of the General Statutes, are reenacted and shall remain in full force and effect and are incorporated in this act by reference.
SECTION 3.(c)  Additional Limitations and Directions. – Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session of the General Assembly expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, shall remain in effect.
SECTION 3.(d)  Applicability of House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session. – If House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, and any provision of that act or a provision of the Committee Report described in Section 42.2 of that act conflicts with this act, this act shall control.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.