GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 913

Short Title:  Substitute Teacher Pay Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Arnold; Baker, Barbee, Berry, Brown, Cansler, Capps, Clary, Creech, Culp, Davis, Esposito, Gillespie, Grady, Gray, Gulley, Hiatt, Hurley, Justus, Kiser, McCombs, Mitchell, Morris, Preston, Rayfield, Russell, Setzer, Sexton, Smith, Starnes, Teague, Thompson, Walend, and G. Wilson.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 5, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO INCREASE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER PAY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-12(8) reads as rewritten:
"(8)	Power to Make Provisions for Sick Leave and for Substitute Teachers. – The Board shall provide for sick leave with pay for all public school employees in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for necessary substitutes on account of sick leave and other teacher absences.
		The minimum pay for a substitute teacher who holds a teaching certificate shall be seventy-five percent (75%) of the daily pay rate of an entry-level teacher with an "A"certificate.  The minimum pay for a substitute teacher who does not hold a teaching certificate shall be sixty-one percent (61%) of the daily pay rate of an entry-level teacher with an "A"certificate.  The pay for noncertified substitutes shall not exceed the pay of certified substitutes.
		Local boards may use State funds allocated for substitute teachers to hire full-time substitute teachers.
		If a teacher assistant acts as a substitute teacher, the salary of the teacher assistant for the day shall be the same as the daily salary of an entry-level teacher with an "A"certificate."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to implement the provisions of Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.