From the ECS State Policy Database Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary DC Signed into law 07/2012 P-12 Establishes a pilot incentive program to encourage highly effective teachers to teach in four high-need (low performing and low income) schools for the start of the 2013-2014 school year. The incentives include: a one-time bonus of $10,000; homebuyer and other housing assistance; up to $5,000 to be expended on tuition assistance; and up to $3,000 to be used as income tax credits. The mayor will provide a report on the program that includes:number of teachers committed to continuing the pilot program; feedback from the participating teachers; an assessment of the effectiveness of the pilot program; and recommendations for improving the pilot program. http://dcclims1.dccouncil.us/images/00001/20120405113239.pdf Title: Bill 19-648 Source: http://dcclims1.dccouncil.us OK Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Extends the moratorium on National Board certification bonuses for newly certified teachers another year. The state board will not provide a $5,000 bonus through June 30, 2013, to any teacher who obtains National Board certification between June 30, 2010, and June 30, 2013, unless the teacher started the process before June 30, 2010. No new applicants will be accepted into the associated scholarship program or have their application fee paid through June 30, 2013. Also allows a person to be certified as a superintendent if he or she has an Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation approved master's degree in education administration or has completed a program in education administration that included competencies that are substantially equal to additional requirements already in law. The degree must have been earned or the program completed between July 1, 2005, and the effective date of the act. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB2790%20ENR.DOC http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us Title: H.B. 2790 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us ME Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 05/2012 P-12 This bill restructures the incentive established for teachers who attain certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The bill provides that, beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, the payment of the $3,000 annual salary supplement awarded to national board-certified teachers must be provided with funds from the Department of Education and the state subsidy allocated to the school administrative unit that employs the teacher. The bill also establishes an incentive to encourage teachers to apply for national board certification. The bill provides that, beginning with school year 2012-2013, up to 10% of the per-pupil amount for professional development allocated to a school administrative unit must be awarded to provide payment of the application fees for teachers employed by the school administrative unit who apply for national board certification during the year of allocation. If a school administrative unit fails to use the full 10% of the per-pupil amount to pay for application fees, the Commissioner of Education may withhold from the next year's allocation the unused amount. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0618&item=1&snum=125 Title: S.P. 618 Source: www.mainelegislature.org AL Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Creates the Flexible School Calendar Act of 2012. Permits the 180-day minimum school term requirement to be met through the hourly equivalent thereof, beginning with the 2012-13 school year and ending with the last day of the 3rd month of the 2013-14 school year. Requires the local school calendar to be annually established by the local board of education. Establishes limits on earliest by which the school year may start and the latest that the last day of instruction may be. Prohibits a local board from reducing the amount in any cell of any employee salary schedule based on these provisions or a future modification to its calendar or schedule. Requires salary allocations in all future Education Trust fund budgets to be based on the number of contact days allocated by the legislature, or the hourly equivalent thereof. Directs the legislative fiscal office to report, by the 10th legislative day of the 2014 session, on the impact of these provisions on state tax revenues, including state sales, use, and lodging tax revenues. Title: H.B. 360 Source: Westlaw/StateNet GA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Replaces reference to "principal" with reference to "administrator" in certain provisions pertaining to actions to terminate or suspend a school employee's contract. Provides that actions to terminate or suspend contracts due to staff reductions incurred by loss of students or cancellation of programs must be due to no fault or performance issue of the teacher, administrator, or other employee, and that written specification of such must be provided to the teacher, administrator, or other employee. Adds provision that if a school system implements a furlough program, a furlough day must be a Monday or Friday or in conjunction with a holiday, unless the local board of education provides otherwise. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/126990.pdf Title: S.B. 153 Source: www.legis.ga.gov GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Repeals: (1) Section 20-2-212.3, relating to increasing teachers' salaries in areas of shortage; (2) Section 20-2-212.4, relating to an additional five percent increase in teacher salary based on student performance; (3) Section 20-2-213, relating to career ladder programs; (4) Section 20-2-231, relating to the Georgia Education Leadership Academy; (5) Section 20-2-232, relating to staff development plans by local school systems. Pages 4-5 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127649.pdf Title: H.B. 706 - Repealing Various Teacher and Leader Provisions Source: www.legis.ga.gov LA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Addresses salary schedules for teachers and all school employees. Salary schedules for teachers, administrators and other certified staff will be based on the following criteria, with no one criterion accounting for more than 50% of salaries: effectiveness; demand inclusive of area of certification, particular school need, geographic area, and subject area, which may include advanced degree levels; and experience. No teacher or administrator rated ineffective can receive a higher salary in the year following the evaluation than received in the year of the evaluation. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=789546 Title: H.B. 974 Source: http://legis.la.gov WV Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Provides salary equity supplement payments to teachers and service personnel in order to achieve salary equity among the counties; specifies the amounts of those equity supplements; changes the methods of calculating the difference in salary potential of school employees among the counties; requires the Department of Education to request additional funds if it determines the equity objective is not being met; clarifies the amount of equity supplement to be paid from state funds. Also includes state minimum salary schedule. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB186%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=186 Title: S.B. 186 Source: www.legis.state.wv.us AR Adopted 03/2012 P-12 Provides guidelines to ensure the availability and retention of certified speech-language pathologists by providing additional compensation for speech-language pathologists holding a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Requires the Department of Education to pay annual incentive bonuses to certified speech-language pathologists who: are licensed in their field, employed full-time at an Arkansas public school, and are not considered a purchased service contractor. Outlines rules for monitoring and funding the incentive bonus program. http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.16.11-002F-12901.pdf Title: AR ADC 005.16.16-1.00 to AR ADC 005.16.16-6.00 Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/ AR Adopted 03/2012 P-12 Establish procedures to provide incentives for teacher recruitment and retention in high priority districts with an average daily membership of 1,000 or fewer. Provides that, at the end of the school year and upon completion of a teacher's contractual teaching obligation, a teacher in a high-priority district may be entitled to receive: a signing bonus, new teacher bonus, retention bonus, in amounts ranging from $3,000 to $5,000. Outlines rules for appropriation, documentation, and monitoring of the program. http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.16.11-003F-12900.pdf Title: AR ADC 005.16.15-1.00 to AR ADC 005.16.15-6.00 Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/ UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Repeals 53A-9-101 through -104, provisions establishing teacher career ladders. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0156.pdf Title: H.B. 156 - Repealing Teacher Career Ladders Source: le.utah.gov SD Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Creates the math and science teacher incentive program for the purpose of providing rewards ($2500) to attract certified teachers who teach in math and science subject areas in middle school and high school or who are certified with a math or science specialist endorsement which they are utilizing for any grade, kindergarten through twelve. Program set to begin in the 2014-2015 school year. School districts cannot opt out. (Sec. 11) Creates the top teachers reward program for the purpose of providing rewards ($5000) to up to 20% of top (measured by annual teacher data) certified teachers in a district. School districts can opt out. (Sec.17) Establishes the Local Teacher Reward Plan Advisory Council to provide input in developing one or more model local teacher reward plan applications. (Sec. 30) Establishes the Local Teacher Reward Plan Oversight Board to establish the application form for the local teacher reward plan, further guidelines for district applications, a system to monitor whether each participating school district is complying with the local teacher reward plan, and penalties for noncompliance. (Sec. 32) Establishes the South Dakota Education Reform Advisory Council to advise upon the implementation of this Act. (Sec. 64) http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2012/Bills/HB1234ENR.pdf Title: H.B. 1234 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Provides that the first teacher supply and demand report following the initial report must be provided by January 2012, rather than January 2011. Requires administrator and teacher salary and benefits information, prior to being reported to the state board for an annual report, to be presented at a regular school board meeting and posted to the district Web site, if one exists. Makes other minor changes. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0256.pdf Title: H.B. 3464 Source: www.ilga.gov IN Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 A new section (20-28-9-1) requires increases or increments in a local salary scale based on the following factors: 1) Combination of the following factors can account for no more than 33% of the calculation used to determine a teacher's increase or increment (number of years of experience and the attainment of either additional content area degrees or additional content area degrees and credit hours); 2) Results of evaluation; 3) assignment of instructional leadership roles, including the responsibility of conducting evaluations; 4) academic needs of students in the school corporation. Teachers rated ineffective or improvement necessary may not receive any raise or increment for the following year if the teacher's contract is continued. Teachers may appeal. By January 31, 2012, requires the department of education to publish a model salary schedule that a school corporation may adopt, and each school corporation is required to submit its local salary schedule to the department, where they will be published to the department's web site. Modifies language concerning supplemental services contracts to allow administrators to select and pay summer school teachers. Clarifies that current teacher salaries cannot be reduced due to a new salary scale adopted to meet requirements of S.B. 1. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0001.1.html Title: S.B. 1 - Salary Increases Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Authorizes a district board of trustees to implement a furlough program and reduce the number of days of service otherwise required by law by not more than 6 days of service during a school year if the commissioner certifies that the district will be provided with less state and local funding for that year than was provided to the district for the 2010-2011 school year. Authorizes the board of trustees to reduce the salary of a furloughed employee in proportion to the number of days by which service is reduced. Sets out conditions and restrictions applicable to a furlough program, including among other provisions that (1) a furlough program must subject all contract personnel to the same number of furlough days, (2) an educator may not use personal, sick or any other paid leave while on furlough, and (3) implementation of a furlough program may not result in an increase in the number of required teacher workdays. Establishes the required process for the development of a furlough program or other salary reduction proposal. In developing a furlough program, requires a district to use a process that includes the involvement of the district's professional staff, and provides employees with the opportunity to express opinions on the furlough program or salary reduction proposal at a public meeting. Pages 12-14 of 19: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 8 - District Furloughs Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Provides that for any school year in which a district has reduced the amount of the annual salaries paid to district classroom teachers from the amount paid for the preceding school year due to district financial conditions and not teacher performance, the district must reduce the amount of the annual salary paid to each district administrator or other professional employee by a percent or fraction of a percent that is equal to the average percent or fraction of a percent by which teacher salaries have been reduced. Pages 14-15: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 8 - Reduction in Teacher and Administrator Salaries Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Repeals provision requiring each charter holder to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher, full-time speech pathologist, full-time librarian, full-time counselor, and full-time school nurse employed by the charter holder at an open-enrollment charter school by the greater of either of two amounts. Repeals provision entitling a certified classroom teacher, full-time speech pathologist, full-time librarian, full-time counselor certified, or full-time school nurse employed by a district in the 2010-11 school year, as long as the employee is employed by the same district, to a salary that is at least equal to the salary the employee received for the 2010-11 school year. Page 17 of 19: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 8 - Salary Increases for Certain Professional Staff Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Directs commissioner of education to annually determine the basic allotment and resulting monthly salaries to be paid by districts. Removes provision that each district must increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher, full-time speech pathologist, full-time librarian, and full-time counselor; replaces with provision directing districts to pay a monthly salary at least equal to a state-set schedule. By January 1, 2013, directs the commissioner of education to submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and legislative leaders a report that evaluates and provides recommendations regarding the salary schedule. Effective September 1, 2017, adds provision that if the minimum monthly salary set forth in statute for a particular level of experience is less than the minimum monthly salary for that level of experience in the preceding year, the minimum monthly salary is the minimum monthly salary for the preceding year. Pages 141-144 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 1 - Salary Schedules Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us MI Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Amends sections of the Public Employee Relations Act (PERA) to address public employee pay increases without a contract. Provides that after the expiration date of a collective bargaining agreement ("CBA") and until a successor CBA is in place, a public employer must pay and provide wages and benefits at levels and amounts that are no greater than those in effect on the expiration date of the CBA (including increases that would result from wage step increases). Requires employees who receive health, dental, vision, prescription, or other insurance benefits under a CBA to pay any increased cost of maintaining those benefits that occurs after the expiration date of the CBA. Permits a public employer to make payroll deductions necessary to pay the increased costs of maintaining those benefits. Provides that the parties to a CBA may not agree to, and an arbitration panel may not order, any retroactive wage or benefit levels or amounts that are greater than those in effect on the expiration date of the CBA (with the exception that for a CBA that expired before the effective date of this legislation, wages and benefits are limited to the levels and amounts in effect on the effective date of this legislation). http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/publicact/pdf/2011-PA-0054.pdf Title: H.B. 4152 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov WA Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Postsec. Suspends cost-of-living adjustments for certain higher education system staff. Makes base bonuses paid to certain certified teachers subject to appropriations in the budget. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/1132-S2.SL.pdf Title: H.B. 1132 Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov NC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Directs the state board of education (SBE) to streamline the paperwork process and to alleviate unnecessary, duplicative paperwork. Requires the to permit all reports to be submitted electronically and adopt policies to consolidate and streamline application for state funds. Requires local boards of education to identify software protocols to minimize repetitious data entry. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to collaborate with More-At-Four to review all reporting requirements and reduce the frequency of reporting as appropriate. Provides that school districts will be granted permission to decline to file additional plans or paperwork if the School Improvement Plan adequately covers the subject. Eliminates the pre-payment of teachers starting July 1, 2012 and provides that from July 1, 2012 forward teachers will be paid for the days that they work in each month instead of the whole month. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H720v6.pdf Title: H.B. 720 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us SC Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Provides that for Fiscal Year 2011-2012, a local school district board of trustees may determine that all teachers employed by the district must be paid based on the step they were paid in the prior fiscal year, without a negative impact resulting to their experience credit. Provides that this decision must be voted on by the local school district board of trustees in a public school board meeting with public notice posted on the school district website. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/3642.htm Title: H.J.R. 3642 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Establishes the State Education Finance Study Commission to evaluate the Quality Basic Education (QBE) Formula and education funding for public schools in Georgia. Provides for composition, compensation, duties and powers, and support staff of the commission. Directs the commission to review specified issues related to the QBE formula, state and local funding partnership, equalization, student transportation, state schools funding, capital outlay. Encourages the commission to study and evaluate issues related to charter schools; Career, Technical, and Agriculture Education, dual enrollment, virtual schools; teacher pay; non-QBE grants, and other changes to the education code. Provides a timeline for the commission's work, including that the proposed legislation for final recommendations be completed by end of 2012. Abolishes commission and supporting statutory language on March 31, 2013. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf Title: H.B. 192 - State Education Finance Study Commission Source: www.legis.ga.gov ID Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Amends Sections 1, 4, 5, 12, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 26 of Senate Bill No. 1108. Determines when the State Department can withhold payments for a teacher without a valid certification. Requires state board approval of leaves of absence granted by authorized staff. Claries that only provisions of master agreements in conflict with statute are null and void rather than the entire agreement. Clarifies that extra day supplemental contracts will carrry the same contract rights as the underlying contract. Clarifies that non-administrative certificate staff will be considered in education organization membership tallies and eliminates duplicate association tallies. Clarifies that trustees must use their last good faith offer when establishing compensation for professional employees. Retains the 99% rule for the remainder of the current school year. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/H0335.pdf Title: H.B. 335 Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov ID Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Amends Section 1 of Senate Bill No. 1110 relating to pay for performance, hard to fill positions and leadership awards; provides an opportunity for local school districts to consider additional criteria in setting factors used for leadership and hard to fill bonuses.Amends Section 4 of Senate Bill No. 1110 to declare an emergency. http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/H0336.pdf Title: H.B. 336 Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov ID Became Law Without Governor's Signature 04/2011 P-12 This legislation repeals Section 33-515B, Idaho Code, removing the severance fee to be paid to any professional staff whose positions must be eliminated due to lost enrollment. It amends Section 33-1003, Idaho Code, to include a 97% average daily attendance protection feature of the state funding formula. The 97% inclusion will be for one year only as a phaseout for those districts experiencing the largest decline in enrollment and will expire July 1, 2012. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/H0315SOP.pdf Title: H.B. 315 Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov ID Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 No full-time instructional staff member shall be paid less than $30,000. After the base and minimum salaries established pursuant to this subsection have reached the amounts that were in effect in fiscal year 2009, all further increases to these base and minimum salaries shall be allocated such that the percentage increase in the minimum salary is one and one-half (1.5) times the percentage increase in the base salary. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1184.pdf Title: S.B. 1184 - Compensation Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov FL Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Repeals existing language related to local salary schedules. Directs local boards to establish a grandfathered salary schedule for all employees hired before July 1, 2014. By July 2014, requires local boards to adopt a performance salary schedule that provides annual salary adjustments for instructional personnel and administrators based on performance. Employees must be compensated based on performance after they have received a performance evaluation as revised through this legislation. Establishes salary adjustments for highly effective or effective performance. Provides an employee receiving a rating other than highly effective or effective will not receive an annual salary adjustment for that year. Also directs local boards to provides for salary supplements for assignment to a Title I or low-performing school, certification and teaching in a critical teacher shortage area, or assignment of additional academic responsibilities. Provides that if budget constraints in any given year limit a local board's ability to fully fund all adopted salary schedules, the performance salary schedule may not be reduced on the basis of total cost or the value of individual awards in a manner that is proportionally greater than reductions to any other salary schedules adopted by the district. Existing legislation defines "critical teacher shortage area" as math, science and career education; this legislation directs the state board to identify critical teacher shortage areas. Requires instructional personnel on annual contract as of July 2014 to be placed on the performance salary schedule. Permits instructional personnel on continuing contract or professional service contract to opt into the performance salary schedule if the employee relinquishes such contract and agrees to be employed on an annual contract. Directs districts, in developing the grandfathered salary schedule for instructional staff, to base a portion of each employee's compensation on performance, and to provide differentiated pay for both instructional personnel and school administrators based on district-determined factors, including additional responsibilities, school demographics, critical shortage areas and level of job performance difficulties. Prohibits local boards from using advanced degrees in setting a salary schedule for instructional staff or administrators, unless the advanced degree is held in the individual's area of certification and is only a salary supplement. Requires that a superintendent's primary consideration in recommending an individual for a promotion be the individual's demonstrated effectiveness. Exempts a Race to the Top district from specified salary schedule and performance pay provisions for the 2011-12 school year and annually thereafter based on annual approval by the state board, provided specified criteria are met. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-001.pdf http://laws.flrules.org/2011/1 Title: S.B. 736 - Performance Salary Schedule Source: laws.flrules.org AR Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Clarifies that a school district is not 21 prohibited from paying a licensed employee additional salary increases as a supplement under specified circumstances. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act186.pdf Title: H.B. 1366 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ IL Signed into law 08/2010 P-12 Requires that only districts serving 1,000 or more students provide information on education support personnel for the state board's annual survey of salary and benefits for certified and educational support personnel. Pages 17-22 of 51: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB3681lv.pdf Title: S.B. 3681 - Section 105 ILCS 5/2-3.103 Source: www.ilga.gov TN Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Authorizes the provision of group medical health insurance for support staff of an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 3. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3125.pdf Title: S.B. 3125 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov FL Issued 06/2010 P-12 Establishes Florida's Task Force on Excellent Teaching. Directs the task force to: (1) Review performance appraisal systems and teacher certification systems (2) Identify initiatives and strategies that honor Florida's quality teachers for dedicating their careers to teaching (3) Examine the positive impact teachers have on the state's ability to compete in a global economy (4) Identify methods for establishing differential and performance-based merit pay for classroom teachers (5) Develop workable measures of student learning gains, including special education students (6) Formulate strategies for identifying and dealing with low-performing teachers (7) Identifying successful strategies and initiatives for improving the recruitment, development and retention of quality teachers through: --Reviewing teacher preparation programs --Identifying linkages between teacher merit and student learning --Identifying effective peer-delivered professional development and support and the essential components of new teacher support programs --Identifying, disseminating and replicating effective teaching practices, including strategies for teachers to collaborate --Identifying technologies proven to support teacher productivity, efficiency and effectiveness --Identifying effective working conditions to retain beginning teachers --Examining compensation, benefits and incentive issues --Examining options to define, recognize and reward effective teachers By December 2010, directs the task force to provide recommendations to the governor, president of the senate, speaker of the house and state board of education that address the goals and objectives of the task force, including recommendations regarding changes to statute and administrative rule. Provides the task force must continue in existence until its objectives are achieved but no later than June 2011, unless extended by a subsequent executive order. http://flgov.com/pdfs/orders/10-126-teaching.pdf Title: E.O. 10-126 Source: flgov.com MO Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Removes the requirement but allows the General Assembly to make an annual appropriation to the Missouri Career Development and Teacher Excellence Plan, commonly known as the Career Ladder Program. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2012, the state portion of career ladder payments will only be made available to school districts if an appropriation is made. Any state appropriation must be made prospectively in relation to the year in which work under the program is performed. A school district may fund the program for its teachers for work performed in years for which no state appropriation is made available. The variable match formula of the program is removed and the payment must be on a matching basis with 60% local funding and 40% state funding. http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hb1543.htm Title: H.B. 1543--Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.house.mo.gov SC Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Provides that a local school district may pay teachers based on the years of experience the teacher possessed in fiscal year 2009-2010 without negative impact to their experience credit; Provides that school districts may not pay district or school administrators more than they received in fiscal year 2009-2010; Requires districts to pay teachers and school and district administrators for changes in their education level. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4838.htm Title: H.J.R. 4838 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov GA Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Allows an educator, regardless of whether or not he/she is in a leadership position, to be placed on the salary schedule based on the leadership degree if the educator possessed (1) A master's level leadership degree prior to July 1, 2012; (2) An education specialist level leadership degree prior to July 1, 2013; or (3) A doctoral level leadership degree prior to July 1, 2014, as long as he/she was enrolled in such leadership preparation program on or before April 2009. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb923.pdf Title: H.B. 923 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us SC Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Provides salary supplements for teachers who obtain National Board Certification. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/1363.htm Title: S.B. 1363 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov AL Signed into law 04/2010 Postsec. Relates to the Teachers' Retirement System; authorizes the officers and employees of the Alabama Higher Education Partnership, Inc. (http://www.higheredpartners.org/ ), to participate in the system. Title: H.B. 585 Source: www.lexis.com TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Extends membership in the State Consolidated Retirement System to all employees instead of just the administrative employees of certain employers; provides that teachers who subsequently take non teaching positions in the school system may continue retirement participation as a teacher; allows political subdivisions to rejoin the retirement system; states that the board of trustees of the retirement system may purchase or sell futures contracts for asset allocation relating to the equity portfolios. Authorizes the board of directors of any of the following participating associations to pass a resolution to extend retirement coverage to all non-administrative employees of the respective association, instead of to only the administrative employees of such association: (1) The Tennessee Education Association; (2) The Professional Educators of Tennessee; (3) The Tennessee Association of Secondary School Principals; (4) Educational television associations; (5) The Tennessee School Boards Association; and (6) The Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB3138.pdf Title: S.B. 3138 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov KY Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Provides salary supplements to national board-certified teachers employed in Kentucky Tech schools or programs operated by the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB89/bill.doc Title: S.B. 89 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov/ TN Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Creates a Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee (TEAC) composed of 15 members, including the Commissioner of Education, the Executive Director of the State Board of Education, the Chairs of the Education Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and 11 other members appointed by the Governor. Requires the TEAC to develop and recommend to the Board guidelines and criteria for annual evaluation of all teachers and principals, including a grievance procedure. Effective no later than July 1, 2011, requires the Board to adopt policies to implement the recommended guidelines and criteria. Annual evaluation of principals shall be based in part on student achievement data. Student achievement data will make up 50% of the evaluation criteria, with 35% on student growth; 15% on other measures of achievement. Authorizes LEAs to develop their own proposed salary schedules, subject to approval by the Commissioner. No salary schedule may reduce the salary of any teacher employed at the time the salary schedule is adopted. Grants any tenured teacher the right to a hearing before an impartial hearing officer selected by the local board of education prior to termination. Link to fiscal note: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Fiscal/HB7010.pdf Title: S.B. 7005A - H.B. 7010A Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Applies a limitation of $0 to the compensation for performance of specified activities as an employee of an employer, an employee of a third party, or as an independent contractor during the first 6 months after a member retired for service under this part, if the member is below normal retirement age at the time the compensation is earned. Relates to an exemption in retirement benefit reduction for working as trustee or administrator. Revises provisions regarding earning limitations for retirees. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_506_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 506 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Postsec. Existing law establishes the Vision Care Program for State Annuitants, administered by the Department of Personnel Administration. New provision establishes a vision care program for public agency, school and the university system members of the Public Employees' Retirement System, and their dependents to be known as the Retired Public Employees Vision Care Program. Requires the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System to administer the program, and creates the Retired Public Employees Vision Care Program Fund. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_65_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 65 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov NY Signed into law 08/2009 Postsec. Implements a provision in a collective bargaining agreement between the State University Construction Fund and an employee organization relating to unused sick leave and retirement service credit; permits employees of the Fund who are members of the Retirement System to be granted additional service credit for accumulated unused sick leave. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08228&sh=t Title: A.B. 8228 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Adopted 08/2009 P-12 Defines "instructional support services" as professional development, pedagogical support, technical assistance, consultation, and/or program coordination offered by teachers to other school personnel including, but not limited to: conducting workshops, study groups, and demonstration lessons; modeling instruction; providing feedback, coaching, mentoring and other professional support for instructional staff; providing training in best instructional practices in specific content areas; assisting instructional staff in analyzing student performance data and differentiating instruction to meet the needs of all students; coordinating the provision of special education services; developing and promoting a culture of reflective instructional practice; providing curriculum and assessment resources to instructional staff; providing information and support on technology tools to extend and support student learning; assessing curriculum development or professional development needs; and such similarly related work. Adds provision that providing tenure and eligibility for seniority rights to teachers assigned by boards of education and board of cooperative educational services to provide instructional support services. Adds provision establishing certification and experience criteria for experienced and qualified teachers to provide instructional support services to other school personnel. Title: Title 8 NYCRR 30-1.1, 30-1.2, 30-1.9, 80-1.1, 80-5.21 Source: www.dos.state.ny.us IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Allows a member to establish optional credit for up to 2 years of service as a teacher or administrator employed by a private school recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education, provided that the teacher was certified under the law governing the certification of teachers at the time the service was rendered and applies in writing on or before a specified date. Provides procedures to acquire such service credit. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB1148lv.pdf Title: H.B. 1148 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Allows a school board to require a certificate from a licensed chiropractic physician as a basis for pay after an absence of 3 days for personal illness. Allows an exemption from compulsory schooling laws for a child whose incapacitating disability is certified by licensed chiropractic physician. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0645lv.pdf Title: H.B. 645 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Postsec. Requires that a full-time employee of the state, local government or a school district who is a member of a reserve component of the armed forces or state militia must be given a leave of absence for any required training or duty. Requires that during the leave, the employee receive his or her public employment compensation, minus the amount of the military pay, if the employee's military pay is less than his or her compensation from the public employer. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0337lv.pdf Title: S.B. 337 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Requires the governing board of each school district, public university, and community college to report to the state board of education or board of higher education the base salary and benefits, including vacation days, sick days, bonuses, annuities and retirement enhancements, of all administrators and teachers or faculty. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB2235lv.pdf Title: H.B. 2235 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Gives districts flexibility to select which teachers' salaries to reduce, rather than applying a general salary reduction. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2011.pdf Title: H.B. 2011--Section 21 Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ IL Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Provides that a school board may require a certificate from a physician, advanced practice nurse, physician assistant or spiritual adviser as a basis for pay during leave after an absence of 30 days for birth. Provides that for paid sick leave for adoption or placement for adoption, the school board may require that the teacher or other employee provide evidence that the formal adoption process is underway. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0035lv.pdf (2009 H.B. 548 was vetoed because it was duplicative of enacted S.B. 35. Governor's message: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0548gms.pdf) Title: S.B. 35 and H.B. 548 Source: www.ilga.gov OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools. Also requires the 2010 report to include: (1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs (2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding (3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers (4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning (5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts (6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts. Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to): (1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies (2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time (3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement (4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices (5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms. Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent. Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council. Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OR Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Allows certain education districts to provide an employee health benefit plan other than the plan provided by the Educators Benefit Board if the premiums of the plan are the same as or less than the premiums of the board's plan and the plan is comparable to the board's plan; requires the board to perform an actuarial analysis. Chapter 474 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0900.dir/sb0901.en.pdf Title: S.B. 901 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us MO Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school employee retirement systems; provides for an investment fund, recalculation of the cost of prior service credit, retirement system purchasing, disbursement of the guaranteed payment option upon member death, nonprofit educational associations, retirement system employee liability, the venue of suits against employees and garnishment of retirement funds for spousal maintenance or child support. http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/hb265.htm Title: H.B. 265 Source: http://www.house.mo.gov/ LA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Relates to the State Teachers' Retirement System; provides that foreign teachers holding J-1 visas who are teaching in a public school in the state through a J-1 exchange visitor program shall be members of the system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=668586 Title: H.B. 112 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ OH Adopted 07/2009 P-12 Establishes the "Health Care Fund" as a separate account within the Employers' Trust Fund. Provides that fund assets may be used only for the payment of health care benefits, qualified medical expenses, dental and vision coverage, if applicable, and to reimburse the Medicare Part B premiums paid by eligible benefit recipients. Provides that assets in the Health Care Fund may not be used for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits, or for any other purpose for which the other funds of the system are used. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3307/1/11/3307$1-11-12_FF_N_RU_20090706_0852.pdf Title: OAC 3307:1-11-12 Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Repeals section 118.245, which established limitations on the salary and fringe benefit costs for professional employees. Page 469 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf Title: A.B. 75 Source: www.legis.state.wi.us OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Amends ethics laws; exempts from the definition of gift certain program material, expenses for attendance at a conference, and expenses paid to a public school employee for accompanying students on an educational trip; removes a requirement that a not-for-profit corporation receive less than a specified amount of funding from a for-profit organization in provisions exempting expenses paid for conference attendance; modifies provisions concerning direct interest in a public contract by a public official. Chapter 689 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb2518.en.pdf Title: H.B. 2518 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Upon request by a teacher, librarian, nurse or counselor or by the district employing one of those individuals, requires a district that previously employed the individual to provide a copy of the individual's service record to the district employing the individual. Provides that if a district fails to provide an individual's service record, the agency must, to the extent that information is available, provide the employing district with information sufficient to determine the individual's placement on the district's salary schedule. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01365F.pdf Title: H.B. 1365 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Sections 6 and 9: Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires each school district and each charter holder that operated an open-enrollment charter school as of January 1, 2009, to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher and specified non-instructional staff by a specified amount. Section 7: Specifies that districts are entitled to state aid in the amount necessary to fund salary increases required by Section 19.009(d-2). Section 8: Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires the Windham School District (district established by the state board of corrections) to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher and specified non-instructional staff by a specified amount. Pages 4-8 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 6-9 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Postsec. Provides that the requirement that 6 months elapse between a higher education state employee's merit salary increases does not apply to a one-time merit payment if the chief administrative officer of the institution of higher education determines in writing that the one-time merit payment is made in relation to the employee's performance during a natural disaster or other extraordinary circumstance. Permits a state employee, with authorization from the administrative head of the agency for which an employee works, or that person's designee, to be paid for the hours of compensatory time the employee earns for work directly related to a disaster or emergency declared by the appropriate officer of the state or federal government. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB02298F.pdf Title: S.B. 2298 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us ME Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Establishes the Study Commission Regarding Teachers' Salaries; clarifies that the scope of the study commission review is teacher compensation, salaries and benefits; includes an examination of alternatives to the existing method of recognizing the costs of teachers' salaries based on education and experience, collective bargaining alternatives in determining salaries and benefits at the school administrative unit level and other relevant factors. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/HP036701.pdf Title: H.B. 367 Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/ ME Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to review models for performance-based pay and bonuses for teachers, principals and superintendents and to adopt rules authorizing school administrative units to use a performance-based pay model for the remuneration of teachers beginning in school year 2010. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/billpdfs/SP045801.pdf Title: S.B. 458 Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/ NC Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Directs the Office of State Personnel, Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina Community Colleges, and the University of North Carolina to develop an employee benefits statement that reflects the current value of employee benefits provided to state, public school, and community college employees. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1221v4.pdf Title: H.B. 1221 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us TN Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Provides that employee bonuses and performance compensation are not conditions of employment that the board of education and professional employees' organization have to negotiate in good faith. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB2002.pdf Title: S.B. 2002 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills WA Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Relates to the Public Employees Benefits Board; allows the Board to determine the criteria for eligibility for benefits; establishes certain rules for half-time employees and half-time community and technical college faculty; allows the Health Care Authority to use different eligibility criteria when contracting to provide school district, local government, or tribal government coverage; allows school districts to be charged for employee benefits on a school-year basis rather than a fiscal year basis. Chapter 537 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2200.dir/hb2245.a.pdf Title: H.B. 2245 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Relates to veterans; clarifies the circumstances under which pay differential applies for deployed National Guard and reserve members who are teachers. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S1794.2.html&session=ls86 Title: S.B. 1794 Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Makes districts in the rural equity region eligible for assistance in developing Q-Comp applications with specific compensation program components.  Requires the commissioner to provide technical assistance to rural districts or groups of rural districts. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86 Title: H.F. 2 Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us AK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Provides for the temporary suspension of the operation of school experience factors applicable to salary scale provisions for teachers. Allows schools to use greater financial incentives to attract experienced, out-of-state teachers for hard-to-fill positions. Chapter 18 http://www.legis.state.ak.us Title: H.B. 215 Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us TX Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Bars district policies from the order in which an employee may use certain types of personal and sick leave. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00522F.pdf Title: S.B. 522 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us HI Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Repeals salary ranges for teachers of the department of education. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/SB161_HD1_.HTM Title: S.B. 161 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Adopted 05/2009 P-12 Specifies dollar amounts to be paid certified or equivalent career/technical education staff for (1) Administering the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Performance Test (2) Each lesson plan used as a model for other classes in area technology centers (3) Participating in specific projects relating to professional or curriculum development, staff exchange, and the integration of academics in career and technical education outside of normal working hours, subject to the state plan for career and technical education Adds salary provisions for full-time employees working as a dual appointment (employees serving in two positions). http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/780/003/020.htm Title: 780 KAR 3:020 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov IN Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Allows the board of trustees of the public employees' retirement fund to establish by rule the valuation date for a member's annuity savings account and the frequency, allocation, and timing of changes in a member's investment selections for the legislators' retirement system; allows the state retirement boards of trustees to establish a single composite interest or earnings rate; includes the teachers' retirement fund. Public Law 165 http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/se/se0536.1.pdf Title: S.B. 536 Source: http://www.in.gov IN Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Provides that a school corporation and an employee or the exclusive representative of its certificated employees with respect to those employees may agree to a wage payment arrangement which provides that compensation earned during a school year may be paid using equal installments or any other method over all or part of that school year or any other period that begins not earlier than the first day of that school year and ends not later than 12 months after the period begins. Public Law 41 http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/se/se0263.1.pdf Title: S.B. 263 Source: http://www.in.gov IA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Amends existing policy and adds new section (284.3) on single salary system. S.F. 445 incorporates Phase II (general salary increases) of the Educational Excellence Program into individual salary schedules and repeals the Educational Excellence Program including elimination of the Educational Excellence Phase I (minimum annual salaries) appropriation and the Phase II set-aside appropriations. From the fiscal note: Beginning in FY 2010, Educational Excellence Program Phase II allocations totaling $41.2 million to school districts and area education agencies (AEAs) will be rolled into the school aid formula and funded on a per pupil basis as part of the teacher salary supplement. The remaining General Fund standing appropriation to Educational Excellence Phase I for FY 2010 is estimated at $13.5 million and the Phase II set-aside is estimated at approximately $760,000. The estimated fiscal impact of Senate File 445 will be a reduction in General Fund expenditures in FY 2010 of $14.3 million compared to the current law estimate for FY 2010. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&frame=1&GA=83&hbill=SF445 Title: S.B. 445 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us GA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Adds provision that an educator's placement on the salary schedule cannot be based on a leadership degree earned on or after July 1, 2010, unless the educator is employed in a leadership position as defined by the state board. Requires the educator to be placed on the salary schedule position attributable to the educator without regard to the leadership degree. Specifies these provisions do not apply to an educator who possessed a leadership degree prior to July 1, 2010, regardless of whether or not he or she is in a leadership position. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb455.pdf Title: H.B. 455 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Section 201-203 focus on the certification, evaluation and compensation of teachers and other staff. Includes creation of an effective teaching and compensation working group to address a new salary model. Section 204 instructs the education data center and the superintendent of public instruction to take all actions necessary to secure federal funds to implement these sections. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 2261--Section 201-203, Teacher Compensation and Evaluation Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Section 601 establishes a technical working group to begin working on July 1, 2011 using the results the legislature has collected on developing an enhanced salary allocation model that is collaboratively designed to ensure the rationality of any conclusions regarding what constitutes adequate compensation. Technical working group is to make recommendations on: 1) reducing the number of tiers within the existing salary allocation model; 2) accounting for labor market adjustments; 3) accounting for different geographic regions of the state where districts may encounter difficulty recruiting and retaining teachers; 4) the role and type of bonuses available; 5) ways to accomplish salary equalization over a set number of years; and 6) initial fiscal estimates for implementation of the recommendations including a recognition that staff on the existing salary allocation model would have the option to grandfather in permanently to the existing schedule. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2261-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 2261--Section 601, Teacher Compensation Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov CO Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Allows the general assembly to determine annually whether to appropriate moneys for the alternative teacher compensation plan grant program; repeals the 2008-09 fiscal year appropriation of $ 1 million for the grant program; relates to grants to school districts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/B0D88A8489357D3887257552000135CC?open&file=213_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 213 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us CO Adopted 02/2009 P-12 Addresses an alternative teacher compensation plan grant program to be administered through the Department of Education and directs that funds be provided for a competitive grant program to school districts that seek to develop alternative teacher compensation plans. http://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/NumericalSubDocList.do?deptID=4&deptName=300%20Department%20of%20Education&agencyID=109&agencyName=301%20Colorado%20State%20Board%20of%20Education&ccrDocID=3019&ccrDocName=1%20CCR%20301-80%20Rules%20for%20the%20Administration%20of%20the%20Alternative%20Teacher%20Compensation%20Plan%20Grant%20Program Title: 1 CCR 301-80 Source: http://www.sos.state.co.us IL Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Revises the Teaching Excellence Program. Provides an annual payment of $3,000 to a teacher or counselor who holds both a Master Certificate and a corresponding certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Creates a $1,000 incentive for an active teacher or counselor who has a Master Certificate and agrees to provide at least 30 hours of mentoring during that year to teachers or counselors, as applicable. Creates similar incentive for a retired teacher or counselor who holds a Master Certificate and a current corresponding certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Provides an additional $1,000 to an eligible active or retired teacher or counselor who agrees to provide an additional 30 hours of mentoring during that year, for a total of 60 hours of mentoring and $2,000. Increases incentive to $2,000 for active and retired teachers and counselors who meet the aforementioned criteria and who agree to provide at least 30 hours of mentoring in schoolsin on academic early warning status or in schools in which 50% or more of the students receive free or reduced lunch. Provides an additional $2,000 to an eligible active or retired teacher or counselor who agrees to provide an additional 30 hours of mentoring in schools on academic early warning status or in schools in which 50% or more of the students receive free or reduced lunch for a total of 60 hours of mentoring and $4,000. Provides that mentoring under these provisions may include providing high quality professional development for new and experienced teachers or school counselors and/or assisting National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) candidates through the NBPTS certification process. Specifies and prioritizes Master Certificate incentives if funds are available. Provides that if funds remain after all incentives and bonuses have been expended, up to $250,000 must be used for the continuation of an appropriate electronic system to process Master Certificates and various payments. Revises the membership of the state P- 20 Council. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2687lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2687 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Provides that the State's Attorney must notify the board of trustees for the retirement system or pension fund if an employee is convicted of a job-related felony relating to or arising in connection with the employment for which the employee is covered under the retirement system or pension fund. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4700lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4700 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Adopted 08/2008 P-12 Amends rules regarding salary bonuses for teachers who attain certification by the national board. Updates guidance on the administration of the salary bonus for teachers and other certificated instructional staff who have attained certification by the national board for professional teaching standards. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/ Title: WAC 392-140-970 thru -974 Source: http://apps.leg.wa OR Rejected by voters 08/2008 P-12 Enacts the Kids First Act; requires that pay raises for public school teachers shall be based upon each teacher's classroom performance and not related to or connected to his or her seniority; provides that if a school district reduces its teaching staff, the district shall retain the teachers who are most qualified to teach the specific subjects, which they will be assigned to teach; provides the requirements for determining most qualified teachers. http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/irr/2008/020text.pdf Title: Ballot Measure 60 Source: http://www.sos.state.or.us/ NY Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Adds new rules to establish criteria for determining the reasonable and necessary expenses to be paid by school districts to distinguished educators, and members of school quality review teams and joint intervention teams. Adopted as proposed in April 2, 2008 rules (pages 8-12 of 24): http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/apr2/pdfs/rules.pdf Title: Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.15 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet RI Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Authorizes municipalities and school districts to create post-employment benefit trusts and to invest the assets therein in accordance with the requirements of government accounting standards; provides for health care and dental care benefits; provides for a trust agreement between a municipality and a bank or trust company doing business in the state. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law08/law08092.htm Title: S.B. 3141 Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us HI Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Effective July 1, 2008, directs the board of education to provide wage adjustments for substitute teachers that are comparable to the across-the-board wage adjustments negotiated for teachers in bargaining unit 5. Authorizes the board to also adjust hours, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment for substitute teachers. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/SB2652_CD1_.htm Title: S.B. 2652 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation under the Retirement System; excludes charter school Merit Award Program funds from administrative fees; revises funding for dual enrollment instruction; authorizes transfer of funds for academic classroom instruction; provides for allocation of research-based reading instruction; authorizes a school district to redirect millage amounts. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5083er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5083&Session=2008 Title: H.B. 5083 Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/ SC Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 For schools or districts designated as "at risk" (changed from "unsatisfactory), teacher specialists may be assigned to work across grade levels and subject areas. Such teachers will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 50% of the current southeastern average teacher salary. Specialists are limited to three years in one school unless exceptions are made. To recruit principal specialists, who will receive their salary and a supplement equal to 1.25 times the supplement amount calculated for teachers. They may be employed as a component of the technical assistance strategy for two years and may continue for a third year if requested by the local board, the external review team or the state board. Modifies other provisions related to technical assistance -- including allowing schools to use technical assistance funds to provide homework centers. http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html or http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/prever/4662_20080529.doc Title: H.B. 4662 -- Amends Multiple Provisions Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net OK Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Bill creates the School District Employee Direct Deposit Act that authorizes a school district board of education to adopt a direct deposit system for school district employees. The bill prohibits service charges on any employee as a result of the implementation of the system and provides that state board of education salary bonuses for school psychologists and speech language pathologists or audiologists may be pro-rated for persons not employed on a full-time basis. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/hb2731_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 2731 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Governor and General Assembly by January 15, 2009. (Page 10, Line 20) DIVISION IV – STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER QUALITY PROGRAM • Requires disposition of Teacher Quality Funding to be negotiated as part of a whole-grade sharing agreement (Page 66, Line 33) • Repeals language that included licensed teachers employed part-time by a district under an agreement with a practitioner preparation program in Teacher Quality funding. (Page 67, Line 7) • Increases the minimum salary for a beginning teacher by $1,500 to $28,000. (Page 67, Line 24) FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers is $2.1 million in FY 2009. • Increases the minimum salary for a career teacher by $2,500 to $30,000. (Page 67, Line 30) FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers is $828,000 in FY 2009. TEACHER QUALITY FUNDING ALLOCATIONS • Allocates $1.7 million for National Board Certification awards in FY 2009, an increase of $620,000 compared to FY 2008. The funding is intended to fulfill existing commitments, and no new awards are funded. The allocation for Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program is eliminated. (Page 69, Line 11) • Allocates $28.5 million for Professional Development for FY 2009, an increase of $8.5 million compared to FY 2008. Includes new sub-allocations of $8.5 million for professional development related to the core curriculum and $915,000 to implement a statewide early childhood professional development system. (Page 69, Line 28) • Allocates $250,000 for the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce (ITW) for FY 2009. This is a new allocation. (Page 71, Line 18) • Allocates $335,000 for Pay for Performance Implementation Projects for FY 2009. This is a decrease of $2.2 million compared to the original FY 2009 allocation enacted in 2007. This amount is sufficient to fund the implementation phase of the three projects that received development grants in FY 2008. (Page 71, Line 26) • Repeals the Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program. (Page 72, Line 5) Title: H.B. 2679 Source: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us MS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Postsec. Increases and authorizes annual experience salary increments for teachers fore up to 35 years of experience for all certificate levels, to be phased-in over a two-year period. Commits state funding for mentor teachers that provide services to beginning teachers in all grades. Authorizes school districts affected by Hurricane Katrina to borrow funds and issue promissory notes to the Federal Government under the community disaster loan program. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/SB/2100-2199/SB2176SG.pdf Title: S.B. 2176 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us WV Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 From state fiscal analysis: "The purpose of this bill is to grant a $1,600 annual salary increase to professional educators and a $700 annual increase to service personnel ($70/month), grant a $400 salary supplement to classroom teachers staring at the first year and increase the salary supplement for classroom teachers with 20 or more years of service from $600 to $1,000." http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=20052795 Copy of bill: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB573%20SUB2%20enr.htm Title: S.B. 573 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Grants school nurses and school psychologists who attain national certification an annual salary supplement of $2500 and reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses for attaining national certification (no more than $600). Fifteen new nurses and psychologists are eligible each year. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4117%20enr%20SUB.htm Title: H.B. 4117 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Postsec. Permits the transfer of accumulated leave of certificated and classified employees between the K-12 and higher education systems. Title: S.B. 6588 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature ID Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Provides that when the State Board of Education removed the requirement that Idaho's public elementary schools be accredited; provides for an impact on teachers teaching in those elementary schools; provides that under Idaho Code teachers receive an additional salary multiplier for each year that they teach in an accredited public school. Chapter 158 http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/S1410.html Title: S.B. 1410 Source: http://www3.idaho.gov UT Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Provides funds for one-time $1,000 signing bonuses for new educators (including teachers returning to education after one or more years of interrupted service) hired to begin teaching in the 2008-2009 school year. Provides funds for one-time performance-based compensation during the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that, to receive an allocation for one-time performance-based compensation, a school district or charter school must receive approval of the district or school's written performance-based compensation plan submitted to the state board of education. Provides that the plan must provide specific information about how the education entity intends to spend its allocation, including: (1) Who is eligible for the performance-based compensation (2) Criteria for awarding performance-based compensation (3) The instruments or assessments that may be used to measure or evaluate performance (4) The amount of performance-based compensation that may be awarded (5) Whether the performance-based compensation will be based on individual, team, or school-based performance, or a combination thereof. Requires an education entity that awards performance-based compensation from the appropriation to report to the executive appropriations committee by June 30, 2009 on the amounts awarded and the number of employees receiving awards. http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0281.pdf Title: S.B. 281 Source: le.utah.gov SD Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Revises certain provisions regarding the teacher compensation assistance program. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2008/Bills/HB1044ENR.htm Title: H.B. 1044 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us OH Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 · Revises retirement eligibility requirements and benefit calculations for School Employees Retirement System (SERS) members whose membership commences on or after the act's effective date. · Increases the age at which a new SERS member is eligible to retire under a retirement incentive plan. · Requires the SERS Board, at least once every ten years, to direct its actuary to evaluate retirement eligibility requirements. http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/08-sb148-127.pdf Title: S.B. 148 Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us NY Vetoed 08/2007 P-12 Allows former members of the New York city teachers' retirement system who were suspended because of fiscal measures taken by New York city to obtain service credit. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08445&sh=t Title: A.B. 8445 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Relates to school districts other than the Chicago school district. Allows sick leave for birth, adoption, or placement for adoption. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1877lv.pdf Title: H.B. 1877 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Gives teachers credit for the excess personal leave time that they earn. Ensures that teachers can take personal leave with five days' notice. Authorizes the conversion of personal leave time to sick leave for retirement purposes. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S914v2.html Title: S.B. 914 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us NC Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Requires the State Board of Education to establish a pilot program authorizing the implementation of alternative teacher salary plans to enable local school administrative units to develop and implement plans that will improve student performance by financially rewarding teachers through performance pay plans, recruiting teachers to the school unit, and recruiting teachers to hard-to-fill positions in specific subject areas. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H966v5.html Title: H.B. 966 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Provides that a member of the teachers' and state employees' retirement system may not be denied short-term disability benefits due to an absence for military service. Relates to long-term disability benefits for members of the teachers' and state employees' retirement system. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1415v6.html Title: H.B. 1415 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Allows National Board Certified Teachers who serve as mentors, literacy coaches, or in other instructional leadership positions at high needs schools to retain the salary increment for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. Allows National Board Certified Teachers, teachers of the year, and other accomplished teachers to use research-based practices in the classroom. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S1479v0.html Title: S.B. 1479 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Revises the law providing for creditable service in the teachers' retirement system for members who served in the uniformed services. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1414v4.html Title: H.B. 1414 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 The purpose of the ROPE Scholars Pilot Program is to strengthen middle grades education in order to provide students with the opportunity to graduate from high school with the core academic skills needed for postsecondary education and high-skilled employment, and thereby to reduce the high school dropout rate, increase high school and college graduation rates and decrease the need for remediation in institutions of higher education. It is the intent of the ROPE Scholars Program to: -Reduce class size to one teacher to every 17 students -Provide annual salary increments of up to $5,000 per year to teachers certified in the fields of mathematics, science, or special education -Provide a coordinator position at each participating school to assist in community and parental support -Encourage students participating in the program, through agreements executed between the local school administrative unit and students and their parents or guardians, to: (1) Maintain a 95% attendance rate each year; (2) Achieve a minimum of a "B" average; (3) Take the PSAT and the SAT or the ACT and achieve an adequate score, as determined by the state board; (4) Meet the standards for admission established by the board of governors of the University of North Carolina (5) Engage in community service work each month during the school year for the number of hours determined by the state board; and (6) Evidence good character by not engaging in unlawful conduct. -Provide students who successfully participate in the program with college scholarships. Directs the state board to develop a competitive process through which units may apply to participate in the pilot program. The number of participating units will be limited to three units in the 2008-09 fiscal year. The units will be selected from different geographical areas of the state and shall include at least one urban and one rural unit. The state board will develop a process to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, and is required to prepare a report for the legislative oversight committee that includes the cost of implementing the pilot program and indicates state laws, rules and policies that would preclude the implementation of the pilot. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/HTML/S1030v0.html Title: S.B. 1030 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/ HI Became law without governor's signature 07/2007 P-12 Directs the department of education to submit a report to the legislature before the regular 2008 session on a career ladder program for educational assistants that includes:      (1)  Repricing class levels and a career ladder program, and other career ladder enhancements      (2)  The number of employees affected by repricing and a career ladder program      (3)  The cost of implementing repricing and a career ladder program for educational assistants. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/Bills/SB686_CD1_.htm Title: S.B. 686 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov TN Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 During the first year a system or school is on probation, the commissioner of education shall: (A) Have the authority to approve a school system's allocation of financial resources to a system or school on probation; (B) Have the authority to appoint a local community review committee to approve and monitor the school improvement plan; and (C) Implement at least one (1) or more of the following corrective actions: (i) Replace or reassign staff; (ii) Mandate a new, research based curriculum; (iii) Significantly decrease management authority at the school; (iv) Appoint instructional consultants; and (v) Reorganize the internal management structure. Effective with school year 2007-2008, each school and LEA shall include in their annual school improvement plans specific goals for improvement, including, but not limited to, school performance on value added assessment and other benchmarks for student proficiency, graduation rates and ACT scores where applicable, and student attendance. School improvement plans shall also identify areas of strengths and weakness as well as strategies to improve areas of weakness, how additional funds provided through the BEP as the result of changes made in the BEP formula for school year 2007-2008 will be used to address these areas and how the LEA will measure the improvements supported by these funds. Such strategies may include, but are not limited to: (1) Developing school or content-based professional development; (2) Developing teacher induction programs; (3) Increasing the number of reading and math specialists; (4) Increasing classroom equipment and supplies; (5) Reducing class size; (6) Using targeted tutoring and remediation; (7) Increasing numbers of school counselors and social workers; (8) Providing principal professional development; (9) Using enhanced technology for remediation and re-testing; (10) Employing school attendance officers; (11) reorganizing the school day instructional time; and (12) Implementing a standards based curriculum and associated instructional strategies. Requires the office of education accountability to review a sample of system and school improvement plans, determine what actions were taken in response to the annual plans, and report the results of its review to the select oversight committee on education and the house and senate education committees. (1) Makes it discretionary, rather than mandatory, that principals' performance contracts provide for bonuses beyond base salary if performance standards are exceeded; (2) Removes the requirement that when a principal exercises the authority to make staff decisions regarding administrative personnel for the principal must do so "pursuant to local school board policy"; (3) Removes authorization for a principal's designee to provide assessments to teachers. The principals will be required to provide the written assessments and meet with teachers to discuss the assessments; and (4) Removes the requirement that the contract entered into between a school board and a director of schools specify duties other than those prescribed by statute and that it contain performance standards including, but not limited to, school system performance on value added assessment and other benchmarks for student proficiency, graduation rates and ACT scores where applicable, and student attendance. Also removes the requirement that the contract provide for consequences when such standards are unmet and provide for bonuses if performance standards are exceeded. Requires the state board to develop the guidelines for differentiated pay plans by December 31, 2007, and requires each LEA to implement a differentiated pay plan before the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year. Requires the report card or assessments of the effectiveness of teacher training programs to be issued by November 1 of each year. Requires the first report cards or assessments to be issued no later than November 1, 2008. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0376.pdf Title: H.B. 472 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us NV Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Appropriates money to provide for pilot programs of performance pay and enhanced compensation for the recruitment and retention of licensed teachers. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/23rdSpecial/Bills/AB/AB3_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 3A; (NEW BILL) Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/ TX Vetoed 06/2007 P-12 Amends the Educator Excellence Awards program to allow districts to spend certain funds awarded through the program on stipends for classroom teachers who have obtained national board certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02646F.pdf Title: H.B. 2646 Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us AL Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Relates to the salaries of public education employees; provides for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect pay increases of at least seven percent beginning with the fiscal year 2007-08; provides that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step; requires the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule. Act 2007-296. http://www.rsa.state.al.us/Legislation/pdf/HB385-enr.pdf Title: H.B. 385 Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us WA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Changes rules pertaining to gain-sharing of retirement benefits for teachers hired after July 1, 2007 and changes rules regarding early retirement reduction factors. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202007/2391.SL.pdf Title: H.B. 2391 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov NE Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Changes provisions of the school employees retirement act. Relates to retirement and payment of death benefits. Allows for a disability retirement application any time prior to the date of normal retirement eligibility.Gives a surviving spouse 12 months to elect to receive annuity benefits as they existed on the date of death of the member or at age 65, whichever is later. http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB508.pdf Title: L.B. 508 Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov OR Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Allows employees of Department of Education, school districts and education service districts to transfer unused sick leave between department and districts. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/hb2200.dir/hb2265.en.pdf Title: H.B. 2265 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us TN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Allows two or more member employers of the same trade or professional organization with at least five hundred (500) covered lives may enter into an agreement to pool their liabilities under this chapter for the purpose of qualifying as self-insurers. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB0343.pdf Title: S.B. 343 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us TX Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 From bill analysis: Under current law, public school employees who resign at the end of a school year are not entitled to remain on the school district's insurance policy during the summer months. This causes public school employees to lose health insurance coverage during the summer months when they move to a position with a new school district. H.B. 973 entitles employees of school districts to remain on the district's group health insurance coverage through the summer months if their resignation was effective after the last day of an instructional year. This bill also prohibits the school district and the Teacher Retirement System from diminishing or eliminating the amount of a contribution or salary supplementation available to an employee as long as the employee is eligible to participate or enroll in the group health insurance plan. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB00973F.pdf Title: H.B. 973 Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us IA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Allocates $173,943,894 -- $69,600,000 above FY07. Includes $20 million for professional development; $250,000 for new administrator mentoring and induction; $1.8 Million for Teacher Development Academy expansion; $4.4 million for teacher mentoring and induction programs; $1 million for Career Ladder/Pay for Performance Pilot Planning Grants; $3.3 million for market pay factor. Ends the National Board Teacher stipend program effective December 31, 2007. Those awardees in the program prior to that time will continue to receive their stipend until complete. Imcreases minimum salary thresholds by $1,000. http://www.iowa.gov/educate/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,3561/ Title: S.F. 277 - funding provisions Source: Iowa State Department of Education MT Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Provides a quality educator payment to certified teachers employed by the Youth Challenge Program which assists at-risk youth in developing skills and abilities necessary to become productive citizens through focusing on the physical, emotional and educational needs of the youth. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/SB0335.htm Title: S.B. 335 Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov IA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Strikes Section 284.7, subsection 4, which provided that if a performance review for a teacher is conducted in the 5th year of the teacher's status of the career level, and indicates the teacher's practice no longer meets standards, a performance review must be conducted in the following school year; provided the teacher would be ineligible for any pay increase other than a cost-of-living increase if the performance review establishes the teacher's practice does not meet standards for that level. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&ga=82&hbill=SF277 Title: S.F. 277 (Section 28) Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us WA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Provides that certificated instructional staff who have attained certification from the national board for professional teaching standards shall receive a bonus each year in which they maintain the certification. The bonus shall be calculated as follows: The annual bonus shall be five thousand dollars in the 2007-08 school year. Thereafter, the annual bonus shall increase by inflation. Declares that the bonuses provided under this act are in addition to compensation received under a district's salary schedule and shall not be included in calculations of a district's average salary and associated salary limitations. Provides that the bonuses provided under this act shall be paid in a lump sum amount and shall not be included in the definition of "earnable compensation" http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2262-S2.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 2262 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Creates a pilot program to restructure the teacher professional pay system to be known as the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program (REAP). (Act No. 1029) http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB2515.pdf Title: H.B. 2614 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Establishes the Arkansas Alternative Pay Programs Act which relates to a salary amount that is part of a certified or classified school employees total compensation for additional responsibilities, mastery of new knowledge and skills, advanced career opportunities, increased student achievement, attracting highly qualified teachers, or professional development exceeding state minimums. (Act No. 847) http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/SB54.pdf Title: S.B. 54 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us FL Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Establishes the Merit Award program for instructional personnel and school-based administrators; requires a school district board to adopt the plan in order to receive funding; authorizes charter schools to participate; relates to collective bargaining; provides for reversion of undistributed funds; provides for a distribution formula; relates to a performance-pay policy for school administrators and instructional personnel. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s1226er.pdf Title: S.B. 1226 Source: Florida Legislature VA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Increases the monthly health insurance credit for retired teachers from $2.50 to $4.00 for each full year of the retired member's creditable service; eliminates an overall cap to the credit, and adds retired full-time, salaried employees of local school boards as recipients of the credit; establishes a formula for determining the monthly health insurance credit for teachers whose retirement was for disability; makes bill's provisions applicable for current and future retirees from positions as teachers or full-time, salaried employees of local school boards. Pursuant to this bill, a locality would no longer have the option of providing an additional $1 health insurance credit to retired teachers, and the maximum credit that a teacher could receive is $4. This bill is identical to SB 1218, which was also passed. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2370ER (HB 2370); http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB1218ER (SB 1218) Reenrolled and passed with the governor's recommendation: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+amd+HB2370AG Title: H.B. 2370, S.B. 1218 Source: http://legis.state.va.us AR Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Postsec. Provides for the promotion of economic development by creating a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Fund to increases the state's ability to compete for jobs in the twenty-first century; provides the fund is created for the purpose of retaining, recruiting and attracting competent teachers is those fields by providing industry- competitive incomes to certified, qualified teachers who teach in those subject areas. (Act No. 564) ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2007/public/HB2414.pdf Title: H.B. 2414 Source: ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us MS Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Increases teacher salaries under the state's teacher salary scale. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2323PS.htm Title: S.B. 2323 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us OR Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Community College Establishes Educators Benefit Board; requires Governor to appoint members of board for four-year terms; authorizes board to contract for health and dental benefit plans and other benefits for employees of certain school districts, education service districts and community college districts; requires board to adopt rules; permits payroll officers to deduct amounts for benefit plans from employee wages; creates Educators Benefit Account and Educators Revolving Fund and a task force. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0400.dir/sb0426.en.pdf Title: S.B. 426 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us VA Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Provides that counties, cities, towns, school divisions, and certain political subdivisions may establish local trusts or equivalent arrangements to fund postemployment benefits other than pensions. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB789ER Title: S.B. 789 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ UT Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Provides salary increases and bonuses for educators and bonuses for classified personnel employed by school districts, charter schools, and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind; provides that only educators who have had a satisfactory or better evaluation are eligible for such salary adjustments; requires each school district, charter school and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to submit a report to the State Board of Education, which is then submitted to the state legislature, on how the money for salary adjustments was spent, including the amount of the salary adjustment and the number of full and partial salary adjustments awarded; defines "educator" as a licensed classroom teacher; speech pathologist; librarian or media specialist; preschool teacher; school administrator; mentor teacher; teacher specialist or teacher leader; guidance counselor; audiologist; psychologist; or social worker. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillint/hb0382s03.htm Title: H.B. 382 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/ WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Amends Education Code in the following ways: 1) Prescribes authorities of county school boards. 2) Expands purposes for which schools may expend funds. 3) Establishes certain vehicle and driver safety requirements for transporting students to a school-sponsored activity. 4) Expands the purposes for which county boards may lease school buses. 5) Requires county school boards to provide suitable educational facilities, equipment and services for special education students. 6) Requires county school boards to give preference to professional educators currently employed by the board for summer school employment. 7) Establishes service personnel classification title for licensed practical nurse. 8) Adds posting and notice requirements for filling service personnel positions. 9) Prohibits displacement of aides to create vacancy for licensed practical nurse. 10) Establishes parameters for the workday and beginning work station for certain service personnel. 11) Modifies process for determining certain service personnel hiring priority in cases of school merger or consolidation. 12) Modifies personal leave procedures and authorizes transfer of personal leave in certain circumstances for all full-time employees of a county school board . 13) Modifies employment benefits accrued by substitute service personnel employed by a county school board. 14) Requires county school boards to make certain training available to all regularly employed teachers' aides. 15) Prohibits an autism mentor or aide who works with autistic students from transferring to another position after the fifth day prior to the beginning of the instructional term under certain conditions. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2189%20EnrSUB.htm Title: H.B. 2189 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Increases annual salaries of public school teachers; increases the annual salary bonus for teachers with National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification; allows for reimbursement of fees and expenses incurred while obtaining the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification for a limited number of teachers; provides for school service personnel employment terms and titles. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB2777%20ENR.htm Title: H.B. 2777 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Eliminates the early notification payment for a teacher who gives notice of resignation; authorizes a payment for early notification of retirement to employees other than classroom teachers under certain circumstances. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB599%20SUB1%20enr.htm Title: S.B. 599 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ AL Act No. 2007-007 03/2007 P-12 Proposes a Constitutional Amendment; requires the assets, proceeds, and income of the Retired State Employees' Health Care Trust and the Retired Education Employees' Health Care Trust be used exclusively for the purpose of providing health care benefits to retired state employees and retired education employees. Title: S.B. 4A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Extends the expiration date of provisions permitting retired teachers to accept employment as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage for an unlimited number of days without affecting retirement benefits. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/hb2105%20enr.htm Title: H.B. 2105 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ MT Rule Adoption 12/2006 P-12 Adopts and amends rules relating to quality educator payments, at-risk student payments - general fund, Indian education for all payments, American Indian achievement gap payments - general fund and school finance. http://www.opi.mt.gov/pdf/legaldivision/10-7-115pro-arm.pdf Title: ARM 10.7.106, .106A, .113 through .115,10.10.301 to .315, 10.15.101, 10.16.3804, .3811, .3812, .3816, 10.20.102 to 10.30.415 Source: http://www.opi.mt.gov/pdf/legaldivision/10-7-115pro-arm.pdf WA Rule Adoption 08/2006 P-12 Rewrites the state's teachers' retirement system rules to reflect current policy and clear-writing standards. http://www1.leg.wa.gov/documents/wsr/2006/18/06-18-006.htm Title: WAC 415-112-200, -210, -220, -230, -260, -530, -810, -820, -830,-835, -255, -256, -295, -332, -432, -434, -435, -474, -509 Source: http://www1.leg.wa.gov/codereviser/washington%20state%20register/ WV Rule Adoption 07/2006 P-12 Amends rules outlining the minimum requirements for various licenses for educators and paraprofessionals wishing to work in W. Virginia public schools; outlines requirements for educators wishing to qualify for an advanced salary classification. http://www.wvsos.com/csrdocs/pdfdocs/126-136.pdf Title: Title 126, Series 136 Source: https://www.wvsos.com/csr/search.asp HI Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Sets and provides moneys for the classification and compensation rates for substitute teachers that are consistent with the compensation rates determined by the Legislature in 1996. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb3197_cd1_.htm Title: S.B. 3197 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Requires that a local school board employee be provided paid leave to attend meetings of certain public entities on which the employee serves as an elected or appointed member. Provides that public entities include the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana; the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System; the state board of education; and any task force, commission, or other advisory body established by the state board of education. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406321 Title: H.B. 800 Source: www.legis.state.la.us IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Amends the definition of administrator in the Illinois Pension Code to exclude a member on the Chicago teachers' or Chicago charter school teachers' salary schedule, and to include a member who is paid on an administrative payroll. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4541lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4541 Source: IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Allows cooperative high schools to receive some of the same supplementary state aid that new districts receive; relates to multiple agreements. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4365lv.pdf Title: H.B. 4365 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Directs each local board to annually develop, maintain, and distribute a financial report. Provides that the objective of the financial report shall be to facilitate public access to a variety of information and statistics relating to the education funding received by the school district, enrollment and employment figures, and additional information. Requires the financial report to contain, at a minimum, information on: a. All property tax levies, income surtaxes, and local option sales taxes in place in the school district, listed by type of levy, rate, amount, duration, and notification of the maximum rate and amount limitations permitted by statute. b. The amount of funding received on a per pupil basis through the operation of the school finance formula, and from any other state appropriation or state funding source. c. Federal funding received per student or teacher population targeted to receive the funds, and any other federal grants or funding received by the district. d. Teacher and administrator minimum, maximum, and average salary paid by the district, and the percentage and dollar increase under teacher and administrator salary and benefits settlement agreements. e. Teacher and administrator health insurance and other alternative health benefit information, including the monthly premium, the percentage of the premium paid by the district, and the percentage of the premium paid by a teacher or administrator for single and family insurance. f. Teacher and administrator employment statistics, including the annual number of licensed full-time and part-time teachers and administrators employed by the school district during the preceding five years, and including the number of teachers and administrators no longer employed by the district, and new hires. g. Student enrollment levels during the preceding five years, including regular enrollment, special education enrollment, and enrollment adjustments made pursuant to supplementary weighting. h. Such additional information as the school district may determine. Requires copies of a district's financial report for the previous school year to be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the school district must either distribute or post written copies of the financial report at specified locations throughout the school district. Provides that, prior to certifying any levy by board approval, or submitting a levy for voter approval, local boards must facilitate public access to a complete listing of all outstanding levies within the school district by rate, amount, duration, and the applicable maximum levy limitations. Requires that the information on outstanding levies be posted on the district Web site at the beginning of the school year, and updated prior to board approval or submission for voter approval of any levy during the school year. Provides that if the district does not maintain or develop a Web site, the district must either distribute or post written copies of the listing at specified locations throughout the district. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272 Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 14-15 Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us LA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Allows any service retiree of the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System to be rehired on a full-time basis, in any position covered by the system, including part-time, temporary, or substitute employee positions. Repeals language that bars earnings for any 12-month period from exceeding 50% of the employee's average compensation for such period. Replaces with language providing that reemployed retiree earning more than 50% of average compensation must repay earnings in excess of 50% of average compensation for the fiscal year to the retirement system, either through direct reimbursement to the system or by suspension of benefits. Provides, however, that the repayment amount must not exceed the amount of retirement benefits received by the retiree for the fiscal year. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=405955 Title: S.B. 88 Source: www.legis.state.la.us LA Adopted 05/2006 P-12 Provides for public employees placed on involuntary furlough or leave without pay (LWOP) due to a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency to continue to earn service credit in their retirement systems by making employee and employer contributions. Allows these purchases to be paid to either Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) or the employer and then remitted to TRSL. Pages 73-74 of 75: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0605/0605rul.pdf Title: LAC 58:III.401 Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year, each district school board must adopt a salary schedule with differentiated pay for both instructional personnel and school-based administrators. The salary schedule is subject to negotiation as provided in chapter 447 and must allow differentiated pay based on district-determined factors, including, but not limited to, additional responsibilities, school demographics, critical shortage areas, and level of job performance difficulties. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.doc&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2006 Title: H.B. 7087 (Section 55) Source: Florida Legislature GA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Relates to sick leave for teachers and other public school personnel; provides for the donation of sick leave from an employee of a local board of education to his or her spouse who is also an employee of the local board of education for certain purposes. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/hb543.pdf Title: H.B. 543 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Updates the law that established a minimum teachers' salary, starting in 1987, of $ 15,500, an amount that is now outdated and increases the amount to $ 30,000. The bill also establishes a method for future periodic updating of the minimum salary amount and outlines procedures for the distribution of funds for teachers' salaries. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/ld138108-5.asp Title: S.B. 480 Source: Maine Legislature GA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Relates to salary schedules for certified personnel under the Quality Basic Education Act; requires two public hearings prior to decreasing any local salary supplement where there has been an increased in the state minimum salary schedule. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/hb1483.pdf Title: H.B. 1483 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Directs districts to have in place a salary schedule with at least the minimum levels of compensation for a basic contract spelled out in the bill. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2006S1/public/SB27.pdf Title: S.B. 27 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ ID Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Provides that actual years teaching in an accredited college or university shall count in determining the experience factor for public school teachers for salary purposes. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1395.html#engr Title: S.B. 1395 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Provides that there shall be no loss of income or benefits to a teacher or school employee for work time lost because of personal injury incurred by the teacher or employee as the result of an assault while in the performance of assigned duties for a period of one year subsequent to the assault. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB51/bill.doc Title: S.B. 51 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Adds a member of the state National Guard or a Reserve component ordered to active duty by the President of the United States to the list of certified employees of a local board of education that shall be granted a leave of absence for military purposes. Requires, upon the employee's return to work, the Commonwealth rather than the local district, pay the member contributions and any accrued interest that is required to be paid in order for the member to receive retirement credit. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB79/bill.doc Title: H.B. 79 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.lrc.ky.gov VT Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Allows retired teachers who are then reemployed to obtain credit for prior service. A teacher who has ceased being a member upon reemployment is entitled to prior service credit upon depositing in the annuity savings fund the contributions which would have been deducted from the teacher's compensation had he or she remained a member.  The teacher, in order to qualify for the prior service credit, shall also deposit in the pension accumulation fund a sum equal to the contributions which would have been contributed by the state had the teacher remained a member. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT104.HTM Title: S.B. 111 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us VA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Establishes a biennial review of the compensation of teachers and other occupations requiring similar education and training and requires such a review to consider the Commonwealth's compensation for teachers relative to member states in the Southern Regional Education Board. Requires the evaluation of each teacher with continuing contract status at least once every three years; provides that the evaluations must be maintained in the employee's personnel file. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0373 Title: S.B. 324 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us WA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Allowing vesting after five years of service in the defined benefit portion of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the School Employees' Retirement System, and the Teachers' Retirement System Plan 3. From the fiscal note: To qualify for a guaranteed monthly defined benefit in Plan 3 of the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), School Employees' Retirement System (SERS) or Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), a member must meet specific age and service credit requirements, which is commonly referred to as being "vested" within the plan. There are currently three ways a Plan 3 member can become vested and thus eligible for an unreduced retirement benefit: Be age 65 or older with at least 10 years of service credit; Be age 65 or older with at least five years of service credit, including 12 months after age 54; or Be age 65 or older and transferred from TRS, SERS or PERS Plan 2 to TRS, SERS or PERS Plan 3 with at least five years of service credit in Plan 2 at the time of transfer. This bill modifies the second requirement shown above. The modified requirement for each of the Plan 3 systems is: Be age 65 or older with at least five years of service credit, including 12 months of service after age 44. Because service credit is a fundamental component of the benefit formula, this change would impact DRS' Member Information and Benefit Systems, Web-based applications, and the TRS, SERS and PERS Plan 3 financial modeling software. In addition, modifications to member publications would be required. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202006/2684-S.SL.pdf Title: H.B. 2684 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Provides a $2,500 bonus for professional personnel with National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification to be continued for the life of the certificate or ten years, whichever expires first, and to provide for the reimbursement of the fee plus other expenses actually incurred in attaining the certification, not to exceed $600. Payment of the bonus and reimbursement of expenses is limited to no more than 200 new applicants per year. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2006_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/sb783%20enr.htm Title: S.B. 783 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us AL Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Relates to the salaries of public education employees; provides for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect pay increases of at least five percent beginning with the fiscal year 2006-07; provides that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increases according to placement on the appropriate salary step; requires the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb294.htm Title: H.B. 294 Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.usb SD Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Increases the length of time for which nationally certified teachers may receive stipends to be paid upon receipt of documentation of certification completion. During the first five years, the state department stipend is $1000 and the district's is $1000. From years 6 to 10, the district has the option to pay up to $1000 stipend, but if the district chooses not to do so, the state has no obligation to pay. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2006/bills/SB83enr.pdf Title: S.B. 83 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us MS Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Enacts the Education Reform Act of 2006. Section 2 provides additional compensation for teachers holding licenses in critical subject areas. Establishes the Mississippi Performance Based Pay (MPBP) Plan to reward licensed personnel at schools showing improvement in student test scores, and provides additional base compensation for mentor teachers in middle schools with approved classroom management programs. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2602SG.htm Title: S.B. 2602 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us OH Signed into law 01/2006 P-12 Requires the State Board's standards for teacher preparation programs to require that the curricula of those programs be aligned with the State Board's minimum standards for primary and secondary schools, as well as the state academic content standards and the value-added progress dimension (R.C. 3319.23(B)(1)). Gives teacher preparation programs until July 1, 2006, to make the necessary changes in their curricula (except for alignment with the value-added progress dimension) (R.C. 3319.23(B)(1)).Extends from March 27, 2006, to September 27, 2006, the deadline by which the Department of Education and the Educator Standards Board must submit to the General Assembly a proposal for a career ladder program for teachers (Sections 3 and 4). Earmarks $247,000 from existing appropriations in each of fiscal years 2006 and 2007 for the Department of Education to contract with the Center for Learning Excellence at The Ohio State University to provide technical support and evaluations of the alternative education grant program (Sections 5, 6, and 7). http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/confsyn126/h0107-126.pdf Title: H.B. 107 Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us OH to governor 12/2005 P-12 Requires the state board to adopt standards that require the curricula of teacher preparation programs to be aligned with the state academic content standards, the state board's minimum standards for schools, and the value-added progress dimension developed by the Department of Education and to extend the deadline for the Department and the Educator Standards Board to propose a career ladder program for teachers. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_107_PS Title: H.B. 107 Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us LA Signed into law 12/2005 P-12 Allows certain Hurricane Katrina victims to take in-service distributions from their Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts; provides for a tax return under specified circumstances. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329901 Title: H.B. 63A Source: www.legis.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 12/2005 P-12 Waives the first two months' interest on delinquent contributions due for August and September 2005 to the State Employees' Retirement System, the School Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System or any statewide public retirement system; limits the applicability of this law to any system that suffered damage as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or both. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329895 Title: H.B. 17A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.la.us TX Issued 11/2005 P-12 Requires the Commissioner of Education to establish a performance-based pay grant program for educators. The program is to use federal funds and other funds made available for this purpose and is to award grants to campuses of no less than $100,000 for rewarding educators for improving student performance. At least 75% of any grant awarded must be dedicated to compensation for classroom teachers. Grants are to be awarded based on growth in campus-level student performance according to criteria established by the Commissioner. School districts must apply to the Texas Education Agency to receive awards under this program. The state department must set aside from funds made available for this purpose no less than $10,000,000 for grants to be awarded based on incremental growth in student performance at campuses with high numbers of economically disadvantaged students. http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/exorders/rp51 Title: Executive Order RP51 Source: http://www.governor.state.tx.us LA Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 P-12 Applies provisions of the United States Hurricane Katrina Tax Relief Act to the Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts of retirees who have sustained an economic loss due to Hurricane Katrina. Allows retired teachers living in an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina to withdraw additional funds from their accounts up to $100,000 or the total of their account if less than $100,000, by December 31, 2006. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0510/0510EMR.pdf Title: LAC 58:III.510 Source: www.doa.state.la.us WV Signed into law 10/2005 P-12 A BILL to amend and reenact 18A-4-2 and 18A-4-8a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to salaries for teachers and school service personnel; adopting state minimum salary schedules for teachers; providing for incremental salary increases for teachers; and providing minimum pay grade scales for school service personnel. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2005_SESSIONS/4x/BILLS/sb4008%20enr.htm Title: S.B. 4008 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us CA Signed into law 09/2005 P-12 Makes numerous changes to teacher retirement provisions. Broadens the authority of the Teachers' Retirement Board to fix compensation for certain positions. Specifies the procedure by which a member may terminate a retirement allowance upon written request. Provides that a member who retires or separates from service prior to the end of the school year is in violation of certain provisions and the member's service credit for that period of the contract must be computed in accordance with other provisions. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_224_bill_20050922_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 224 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov NC Signed into law 08/2005 P-12 Authorizes Evergreen Charter School to elect to participate in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H485v3.html Title: H.B. 485 Source: StateNet NC Signed into law 08/2005 P-12 Charter schools participation in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the North Carolina teachers' and state employees' major medical plan. Title: H.B. 182 Source: StateNet DE Rule Adoption 08/2005 P-12 Amends regulations concerning credit for experience for educators and for secretarial staff. Clarifies who is an eligible employee by adding a definition of an 'Eligible Employee' and reflects the addition of the definition. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/700/727.shtml#TopOfPage Title: 14 DAC 727 Source: StateNet IL Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Amends the School Employee Benefit Act. Includes in the definition of "school district" a vocational education district, a special education district, a program operated by an educational service region, and a joint agreement. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0227 Title: S.B. 479 Source: StateNet HI Became law without governor's signature 07/2005 P-12 Allows for the temporary establishment of an employee organization sponsored trust that would provide health benefits for state and county employees of a particular bargaining unit, as well as future retirees of that bargaining unit and existing retirees who wish to participate in such a trust. The trust would be established as a voluntary employees' beneficiary association (VEBA) trust. All employees throughout the state within any of the following categories shall constitute an appropriate bargaining unit: (1) Teachers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule, including part-time employees working less than twenty hours a week who are equal to one-half of a full-time equivalent; (2) Educational officers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule; (3) Faculty of the University of Hawaii and the community college system; (4) Personnel of the University of Hawaii and the community college system, other than faculty. Repeals pilot program as of July 1, 2008. Title: H.B. 1608 Source: StateNet OR Did Not Pass 06/2005 P-12 Establishes Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires Governor to appoint members of board for four-year terms. Authorizes board to contract for health and dental benefits plans and other benefits for employees of certain school districts, education service districts and community college districts. Requires board to adopt rules. Permits payroll officers to deduct from employee wages amounts for benefit plans. Creates Oregon Educators Benefit Account and Oregon Educators Revolving Fund. Appropriates to board amount not to exceed two percent of monthly employer and employee contributions for benefits to cover administrative expenses. Prohibits districts, on or after October 1, 2006, from providing or contracting for benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by board. Provides exceptions. Requires board, before October 1, 2006, to enter into contracts for health and dental benefit plans. Creates Task Force on Teacher Health Benefits. Requires task force to report to legislative interim committee no later than October 1, 2010. Appropriates contributed moneys to task force for purposes of carrying out duties of task force. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2005. http://www.leg.state.or.us/05reg/measpdf/sb0600.dir/sb0639.a.pdf Title: S.B. 639 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us HI Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Postsec. Section 1: Establishes need for improvement in teacher recruitment, compensation, support and peer mentoring. Section 2: Creates a new section establishing the Hawaii teacher cadet program fund, originally a department initiative, as a separate fund of the Hawaii Alliance for Future Teachers, a nonprofit organization. Authorizes the alliance to expend funds to establish partnerships with organizations or private vendors to encourage high school students with teaching potential to consider teaching as a career. Establishes and sets responsibilities for the Hawaii teacher cadet program advisory board. Section 3: Requires the University of Hawaii to review its admission policies for the college of education. Section 4: Requires the University of Hawaii to review its college of education's admission standards and consider allowing incoming freshman to declare education as their major and enable them to graduate within four years. Section 5: Requires the University of Hawaii to increase the full time equivalent teacher education faculty positions by 5 additional full-time equivalent positions each year until fiscal year 2014-2015, to allow the number of participants who complete the program to increase by one hundred per cent over the year 2004 total. Section 6: Establishes need to eliminate specified barriers to interest in and entry of the teaching profession. Section 7-8: Mandates that the department establish policies, procedures, technology, and accountability measures to ensure that newly hired employees receive timely and accurate wages. Establishes an alternate option if the department is unable to pay the total wages due a newly hired employee. Requires the department to establish rules by December 31, 2005 to implement these changes. Section 9: Requires the department to provide each newly hired teacher with the new teacher orientation handbook to serve as a reference guide and provide the new employees with information on: (1) Professional development and incentive programs; (2) License requirements; and (3) Other useful information to assist new teachers with their familiarity of the department's organization and educational system. Section 10: Requires the department to establish a standardized statewide teacher induction program for every newly hired teacher. Requires the program to ensure that the new teacher to mentor ratio does not exceed 15:1 and that all mentors are specially skilled and trained to work effectively with newly hired teachers as determined by the department. Section 11: Establishes legislative intent to improve student achievement by adopting policies that promote teacher quality. Section 12: Requires the state board to adopt policies to: (1) Develop a plan for licensing more individuals with practical experience for teaching in vocational/technical programs; (2) Develop a plan to accept teachers from any state as long as they have completed state-approved teacher education programs and pass relevant Hawaii teacher examinations or their equivalent; (3) Clarify the requirements, on a state-by-state basis, for out-of-state licensed teachers to obtain a license in Hawaii; (4) Develop a plan to facilitate licensing for those who intend to teach in Hawaii immersion programs, the island of Niihau, or any other extraordinory situation as defined by the superindent or the superintendent's designee; and (5) Pursue full teacher license reciprocity with the mid-Atlantic states, California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Section 13: Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to submit to the legislature a report of its progress and recommendations regarding its licensing standards and development of its policies before the 2006 regular session. Section 14: Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to review alternative licensing requirements to replace the PRAXIS examination requirement. Requires the review of alternative requirements to include to the consideration of requiring a minimum amount of years of teaching experience to replace the PRAXIS examination requirement. Section 15: Authorizes the conversion of Hawaii teacher standards board's nine temporary positions to nine permanent full-time equivalent positions. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/hb844_cd1_.htm Title: H.B. 844 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov TN Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Any principalteacher, teacher, director of schools or other school personnel employed on a systemwide basis who completes additional academic training after the beginning of a school year, but prior to January 1 of that school year, that would qualify such employee for a higher salary rating shall be eligible to have such employee's salary rating redetermined as of January 1 of the school year. Requires written notice. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/104/Chapter/PC0338.pdf Title: S.B. 1284 Source: http://tennessee.gov OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Budget bill funds public schools at $2.15 billion. Provided an increase of more than $145 million per year to boost teacher pay and benefits, as well as helping schools struggling with growing operational expenses. The increased appropriation includes $57.7 million to fund teacher pay increases, $32.8 million to provide full state funding for educators' health insurance, $9.9 million for support employees' health insurance and an extra $21.6 million that will go through the state's funding formula for school districts. Provides an average pay raise of $1,000 per year to teachers. It also includes funding for the state to cover 100 percent of the cost of teacher health insurance.Among other reforms, the bill includes $800,000 for the Student Tracking and Reporting pilot program, which will encourage schools to use technology to reduce paperwork on teachers and administrators.The budget bill also provides $500,000 for academic achievement awards to schools that demonstrate the highest scores and the greatest improvement in the state's Academic Performance Index. Also includes more money for education fundamentals: Another $3 million has been earmarked for third-grade reading remediation programs and $4 million has been provided for math programs. The $2.15 billion school budget is the largest in state history. Previously, the most money appropriated to public schools was $2.04 billion in the 2002 legislative session.http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1020_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 1020 (budget provisions) Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news7622.html HI Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Requires the compensation plan for substitute teachers' pay to be commensurate with their educational training and academic qualifications. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1250_.htm Title: S.B. 1250 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov AZ Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Establishes the Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force within the state board of education. By Februrary 2006 and annually thereafter, requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit specified school district data to the task force, which must conduct annual evaluation of one quarter of districts' performance based compensation systems based on the submitted data. Requires the annual evaluation to (1) Assess the relationship between components of individual district performance based compensation systems and the improvement in: (a) Individual student progress and achievement; (b) Achievement of school district and school site goals; (c) Teacher professional development; (d) Teacher job satisfaction; (e) Parent rating of the quality of education at the school and district levels and (2) Provide a report to the districts evaluated each year assessing the effectiveness of each district's performance based compensation system, including any recommendations for improvement. Requires the task force to annually submit its findings to the speaker of the house and president of the senate. On or before June 30, 2010, requires the task force to (1) provide recommendations to the state board on the implementation, operation and monitoring of performance based compensation systems and career ladder programs in the state, and (2) develop written recommendations based on elements of districts' performance based compensation systems. Requires all local boards in the state to adopt a performance based compensation system, and to vote on a performance based compensation system that includes the following elements: (1) School district and school performance; (2) Measures of academic progress toward the state board-adopted academic standards; (3) Other measures of academic progress; (4) Dropout or graduation rates; (5) Attendance rates; (6) Ratings of school quality by parents; (7) Ratings of school quality by students; (8) Imput of teachers and administrators; (9) Approval of the performance based compensation system by an affirmative vote of at least 70% of the teachers eligible to participate in the performance based compensation system. (10) An appeals process for teachers who have been denied performance based compensation. (11) Regular evaluation for effectiveness. Requires a performance based compensation system to include teacher professional development programs aligned with the elements of the performance based compensation system. Permits a local board to modify the aforementioned 11 elements and consider additional elements when adopting a performance based compensation system. Until December 31, 2009, requires each district to develop an assessment plan for its performance based compensation system and annually submit the plan to the department of education, along with a copy of the district-adopted performance based compensation system. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1074 Title: S.B. 1074 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us TN Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Allows districts to allocate and expend any state funds received for extended contracts consistent with the needs of the specific programs served through extended contracts. Such allocation and expenditures may include payments to teachers working extended contracts that allow local flexibility regarding the number of hours worked to receive pay supplements. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0218.pdf Title: H.B. 675 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Recognizes and credits a teacher for all of his or her years of teaching experience with a valid Arkansas teaching license, regardless of whether this service was in a public school, accredited private school in Arkansas or Arkansas institution of higher education accredited by a nationally recognized higher education institution accrediting association. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1803.pdf Title: H.B. 1803 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us ID Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Provided that employees of a school district or charter school district who regularly work 20 hours or more per week are entitled to one day of sick leave, proportionate to the hours worked per day, for each month of service in which they work a majority of that month. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1173.html#engr Title: S.B. 1173 Source: Legislative Sine Die Report AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Renames the Teacher and Administrator Enhancement and Retraining Grant Program the Teacher Opportunity Program. Eliminates requirement that program applicant be a citizen of the United States or permanent resident alien. Establishes the Dual Certification Incentive Program to encourage classroom teachers currently employed in the state to return to college to obtain certification in one or more additional subject areas. Specifies conditions for a teacher to be eligible to receive program funding. Allows each district to fund up to four scholarships for teachers with at least three years of experience as a licensed classroom teacher in a public school in the state. States that any classroom teacher awarded a scholarship under the Dual Certification Incentive Program may be allowed administrative leave with pay as provided under the district's certified personnel policies as is necessary for the classroom teacher to attend college classes, travel to or from the college, and take state-mandated tests as may be necessary to obtain the additional certification. Sets forth circumstances under which a teacher having participated in the program must repay the amount of the scholarships received under the Dual Certification Incentive Program. Authorizes the state board of education to suspend the Arkansas classroom teacher's license of any individual who fails, when required to do so, to repay moneys contributed for participation in the Dual Certification Incentive Program. States that upon earning dual certification under the Dual Certification Incentive Program, the dually certified classroom teacher must be paid a bonus of $3,000 each school year that the teacher: (A) Is employed full-time as a classroom teacher in an Arkansas public school district; and (B) Is teaching no fewer than two class periods in each of the different subject matter areas for which he or she received certification. Specifies circumstances under which an individual must lose eligibility for the annual incentive bonus. States that the first priority for the award of funds under the Teacher Opportunity Program is the award of scholarships under the Dual Certification Incentive Program, and that any funds remaining after all awards are made under the Dual Certification Incentive Program may be made for specified other needs. Requires the department of higher education to determine priorities, based on the needs of the state, for awarding grants in the event there are more applicants than funds available. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1982.pdf Title: H.B. 1982 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Updates various provisions of the Arkansas code related to public school finance. One provision changes policy from allowing to requiring any increase in Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries to be used by school districts to provide salary increases for current certified personnel positions and for no other purpose. ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005/public/SB338.pdf Title: S.B. 338 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Clarifies the classroom teacher salary requirement in the educational excellence trust fund. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1179.pdf Title: S.B. 1179 Source: StateNet ND Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Relates to returning to employment after retirement under the public employees retirement system defined contribution retirement plan. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAJD0400.pdf Title: H.B. 1266 Source: StateNet NM Vetoed 04/2005 P-12 Relates to educational retirees returning to work. http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?chamber=S&type=++&number=216&year=05 Title: S.B. 216 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Provides that certified teachers for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program and the C Step Program receive substantially equal teacher salaries and benefits. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2743.pdf Title: H.B. 2743 Source: StateNet ND Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 The board of a school district may provide a stipend to a student teacher assigned to a school in the district. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAMQ0200.pdf Title: H.B. 1232 Source: StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Requires local school boards to adopt policies providing for the donation of leave and leave without pay for school board employees with debilitating or life threatening illness or injury, without regard to the employee's length of service with the school board. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0486 Title: H.B. 2912 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us MS Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Clarifies the authority of the State Board of Education to expend federal funds for training expenses and salary incentives for licensed teachers. The State Board of Education shall have authority to expend any available federal funds, or any other funds expressly designated, to pay training, educational expenses, salary incentives and salary supplements to licensed teachers employed in local school districts or schools administered by the State Board of Education.  Such incentive payments shall not be considered part of a school district's local supplement as defined in Section 37-151-5(o), nor shall the incentives be considered part of the local supplement paid to an individual teacher for the purposes of Section 37-19-7(1).  MAEP funds or any other state funds shall not be used to provide such incentives unless specifically authorized by law. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2272SG.htm Title: S.B. 2272 Source: StateNet MS Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Revises the determination of the annual conversion of unused vacation or personal leave to sick leave for licensed or unlicensed school employees; recognizes leave accumulated under a previous policy. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2005/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2247SG.htm Title: S.B. 2247 Source: StateNet NE Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Relates to retirement; authorizes certain contributions related to school plans. Title: L.B. 329 Source: StateNet WV Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Proposes an amendment to the Constitution designated the Pension Bond Amendment; permits the issuance and sale of additional state general obligation bonds to help provide for the fiscal soundness of the State Teachers Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System, and the Public Safety Death, Disability and Retirement System. Title: S.B. 261 Source: StateNet WY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Appropriates $100,000 to fund the Wyoming teacher policy institute in collaboration with the University of Wyoming during school year 2005-2006. For school year 2005-2006, appropriates $182,000.00 to supplement amounts available under W.S.21-22-106(a)(iii) to districts for reimbursements to teachers for actual costs of national certification fees. Appropriates $400,000.00 to the department of education to initiate and pilot teacher advancement programs providing incentives and support for teachers during the 2005-2006 school year.This appropriation may be expended for piloting a professional development program other than the teacher advancement program if the program substantially provides components similar to but not inclusive of those identified. Expands funding for the teacher of the year program. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2005/enroll/SF0046.pdf Title: S.F. 46 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us UT Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Relates to unused sick leave at retirement; provides that after a specified date, new sick leave hours may not be accumulated for future use under the current Sick Leave Retirement Option Program; provides for a five-year phase out of the guaranteed continuing medical and life insurance benefits for retiring employees and the 480 hour reduction of unused sick leave; creates a new sick leave program for sick leave hours accumulated on or after January 1, 2006. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0213.pdf Title: H.B. 213 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us MT Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Increases the state contibution to the Employee Group Benefits Program; repeals statutory Teachers' and Blue-Collar Pay Schedules; appropriates funds to implement pay and benefit revisions, for personal services contingencies and for a labor-management training initiative. Title: H.B. 447 Source: StateNet OH Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Designates the fourth week of September as Parent's Week; revises provisions governing child support collection. Qualifies teachers employed by chartered nonpublic schools for annual stipends for holding valid certificates issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Allows students who otherwise must pass the ninth grade proficiency tests for a high school diploma to substitute passage of the Ohio Graduation Test in a particular subject for passage of the ninth grade test in the same subject to satisfy that testing requirement. http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses125/04-hb493-revised-125.pdf http://lsc.state.oh.us/analyses/analysis125.nsf/6407a071d8587c3c85256da200703bb6/ Title: H.B. 493 Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us DE Rule Adoption 01/2005 P-12 Amends regulation relating to knowledge, skills and responsibility based supplements for educators. Clarifies the effective date of salary supplements paid to educators who complete professional development clusters. Title: 14 DAC 1501, 1.0 - 12.0 Source: StateNet NJ Signed into law 12/2004 P-12 Concerns the retirement allowance of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund and the Public Employees' Retirement System veterans members who retire after attaining age 55 with at least 35 years of service credit; provides the allowance shall be based on the 12-month period of membership providing the largest possible benefit to the member of their beneficiary instead of the last year of employment upon which contributions are made. Title: S.B. 839 Source: StateNet AL Signed into law 11/2004 P-12 Allows public education employees to participate in a flexible employees benefits program and creates the Public Education Flexible Employees Benefits Board for such program's administration. Title: H.B. 5 Source: StateNet DE Rule Adoption 11/2004 P-12 Amends regulations relating to compensating of district personnel under specific project proposals by adding a reference to charter schools and changing the title to refer only to federal projects. Title: 14 DAC, 742 Source: StateNet NY Signed into law 11/2004 P-12 Permits the New York state teachers retirement system to re-establish a window period in order to pay an actuarially equivalent one time lump sum in lieu of all future benefits to any electing currently retired member or beneficiary whose retirement benefit including supplementation is twenty four hundred dollars per year or less; extends time to file for such election. Title: S.B. 6387 Source: StateNet NY Vetoed 11/2004 P-12 Relates to the effective date of bills affecting benefits provided by the New York state teachers' retirement system; assures that any legislation affecting benefits provided by the New York state teachers' retirement system will take effect no later than June thirtieth of the year in which the legislation is enacted by the legislature. Title: S.B. 7037 Source: StateNet MA *****Returned to HOUSE with GOVERNOR'S recommendation of amendments. For message see H 5111. 10/2004 P-12 Relates to creditable service for service rendered as a school nurse; provides that specified years of membership service as a school nurse shall be deemed to be years of teaching for the purpose of this section. Title: H.B. 4677 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Relates to retired teachers' post-retirement earnings. Limits the period of an earnings exemption for service performed in a emergency situation in certain vacant administrative positions for up to 1/2 of full-time equivalent if certain conditions are met, to not more than 2 years after the date the retired member is appointed or assigned to that position. Extends other earnings exemptions for teaching special education or English language learners or supervising new and student teachers. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2551-2600/ab_2554_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2554 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Specifies that provisions of the Teachers' Retirement Law applicable to a spouse, surviving spouse or former spouse also apply to a registered domestic partner, surviving domestic partner or former domestic partner. Makes technical changes to various provisions of the law, including the provision requiring the governing board of a school district to grant an employee a leave of absence to enable the employee to serve as an elected officer of an employee organization. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2201-2250/ab_2233_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2233 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Authorizes any member of the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teacher's Retirement Plan granted additional credit for service or service and age would not forfeit that credit if he or she is reemployed at any time after retirement by any other district. The Teachers' Retirement Law prescribes limits on the amount of postretirement income that may be earned in specified types of employment by a retired member of the Defined Benefit Program without a reduction in the member's retirement benefits. Specifically, that limit applies to a retired member who receives 2 additional years of service credit at retirement and performs creditable service within one year after retirement for the school district from which he or she retired. Under this bill, that limit applies to a retired member who receives those additional years of service credit at retirement and performs creditable service within one year after retirement for any school district, community college district, or county office of education in the state. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1852_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1852 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Postsec. Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and, where appropriate, the State Department of Education, to incorporate into licensure requirements for teacher candidates, professional development requirements for renewal of licenses, and accreditation requirements for preparation programs components to ensure that teachers are capable of teaching children with diverse needs, ethnicities, nationalities, and languages, of teaching children who bring particular challenges to the learning process, and of teaching in urban and rural settings. Repeals provisions authorizing the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue or renew emergency teaching or specialist permits in accordance with regulations adopted by the commission and provided that certain conditions are met. Authorizes the commission to issue or renew acute and anticipated emergency credentials, as defined. Requires an applicant seeking an emergency permit to meet specified criteria, including possession of a baccalaureate degree and passage of the state basic skills proficiency test. Provides that both types of permits shall be valid for only one year, except that the anticipated emergency permit may be renewed for an additional year if the permitholder meets specified requirements. Existing law requires that a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications be classified on a salary schedule on the basis or uniform allowance for years of training and years of experience, as specified. This bill imposes a state-mandated local program by requiring the governing board of a school district to review its compensation policies and revise them as needed to ensure that the continuing professional education for which it grants salary credit is targeted to courses likely to yield clear benefit in terms of the pedagogical instructional leadership, management skills, or academic subject matter knowledge of its employees.] This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to eliminate waivers authorizing the assignment of a credentialholder to a position not authorized by the credential of the holder and that they be authorized only in cases where there is no other alternative but to fill the position with a 30-day substitute teacher. The bill would further express the intent of the Legislature that each teacher serving in a school ranked in the bottom 3 deciles of the Academic Performance Index possess a valid teaching credential authorizing the holder to provide the service to which the holder is assigned. This bill would also express the intent of the Legislature that this act accomplish specified objectives, including, but not limited to, establishing professional development activities that reward exceptional teachers for continuing to render services in a classroom, collaborations among school districts, professional associations, and postsecondary educational institutions to develop and offer preparation and degree or credential programs that will prepare educational leaders, and that the California State University and the University of California develop technologically delivered professional development and coursework for teachers in geographically isolated areas. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_242_bill_20040827_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_242_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 242 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Allows a school employee, in a school district that is not subject to the disability compensation laws, to use up to 6 weeks of the 5-month period during which the employee receives differential pay to take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner, or to bond with a new child. Allows the same benefit for a school employee that is not subject to the disability compensation laws and in which a school district receives compensation for the absence. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1918_bill_20040819_enrolled.html Title: A.B. 1918 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Under the School Employee Benefit Act, provides the prescription drug benefit program shall be maintained on an ongoing, affordable basis, and the cost to school districts shall not exceed the State's actual program costs. Makes changes to the provisions concerning the State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Education. Terminates the terms of certain members of the State Board of Education on the effective date of the amendatory Act and provides for new members to be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate (including a chairperson). Provides that the Governor who takes office on the second Monday of January after his or her election shall be the person who nominates members to fill vacancies whose terms begin after that date and before the term of the next Governor begins. Allows the Governor to remove a member for incompetence, neglect of duty, or malfeasance. Provides that upon expiration or buyout of the contract of the State Superintendent in office on the effective date of the amendatory Act, a State Superintendent shall be appointed by a State Board that includes the new members who were appointed to fill seats of members whose terms were terminated on the effective date of the amendatory Act. Thereafter, a State Superintendent must, at a minimum, be appointed at the beginning of each term of a Governor after that Governor has made appointments to the State Board. Provides that a contract issued for the employment of a State Superintendent entered into on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act must expire no later than February 1, 2007, and subsequent contracts must expire no later than February 1 each 4 years thereafter. Prohibits a contract from being extended or renewed beyond February 1, 2007 and February 1 each 4 years thereafter, but provides that the State Superintendent shall serve until his or her successor is appointed. Provides that each contract entered into on or before January 8, 2007, with a State Superintendent must provide that the State Board may terminate the contract for cause, and the State Board shall not thereafter be liable for further payments under the contract. Restores current law requiring the State Board to set the State Superintendent's compensation. Restores current law requiring a majority vote of the members appointed, confirmed, and serving to approve any action, except that the new Board members may vote to approve actions when appointed and serving. Provides that upon appointment of the new Board members, the Board shall review all of its current rules in an effort to streamline procedures, improve efficiency, and eliminate unnecessary forms and paperwork. Requires the State Board to create certain divisions within the State Board. Provides that rules of the State Board must be in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Provides that the State Board may not adopt any rule or policy that alters the intent of the authorizing law or that supersedes federal or State law. Provides that the State Board may not make policies affecting school districts that have the effect of rules without following the procedures of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Requires the State Board to develop and maintain a continuing 5-year strategic plan for elementary and secondary education, to be issued to the Governor and General Assembly. Lists topic areas that the plan must include. Removes the provision allowing the State Board to create shared service centers. Provides instead that the State Board is granted the power to provide certain regional services, either through a regional administrative technology center or otherwise. Requires a school district's calendar for the school term and any changes to be submitted to and approved by the regional superintendent of schools (the State Board of Education in Chicago) before the calendar or any changes may take effect. Gives the regional superintendent of schools the duty to assist and support school districts with the preparation and submission of grant applications and the duty to accept and review all transcripts for new initial certificate applications and ensure that each applicant has met all of the criteria established by the State Board of Education in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-1036 Title: S.B. 3000 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site AL Issued 08/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years. http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/ex-02-2003-01-30.asp The Highlights of the Initial Report focused on: (1) Management and Accountability Reforms for K-12; (2) Student Assessment and Accountability for K-12; (3) Management and Accountability Reforms for the Alabama College System; (4) Management and Accountability Reforms for University Governance; (4) Reforms in Terms of Public Employment; and (5) Education Trust Fund Accountability. The Working-Group Sessions (December 2003) made the following proposals: (1) Achieve the maximum savings possible from non-state and non-education agencies; (2) Freeze the state appropriations to PEEHIP at the Fiscal 2004 level; (3) Allocate higher education cutbacks to institutions; and (4) Allocation K-12 education cutbacks to school systems. http://www.alabama.gov/onlineservices/egov_pdfs/ESCReport11404.pdf Title: Executive Order No. 02-2003 Source: Alabama State Web site MS Rule Adoption 08/2004 P-12 Amends rules concerning employment contracts. Increases the number of days from 25 to 45 that a teacher may not be under contract of employment during a school year and still be considered full-time employed and credited with a year of teaching experience. MISSISSIPPI REG 9247 (SN) Title: State Board Policy GBDA Source: StateNet DE Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Protects state employees and school district employees who take military leave pursuant to federal mobilizations, by ensuring that the state will continue to provide the employee with their chosen state provided health care insurance for a minimum period of two years at no additional expense to the employee regardless of additional health care coverage provided by the military or other sources. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/c6fe685e20e98b2b882569a60053971e/f480eebe4361795285256eb40076dcb5?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,296 Title: SS2 for S.B. 296 Source: Delaware Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Provides if a charter school chooses to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System, its qualified classified employees shall be covered under the system in the same manner as the employees of the school district that granted the charter. Provides that disability retirement benefits under the system are applicable to a member who retires for nonindustrial disability. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1601-1650/sb_1603_bill_20040816_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 1603 Source: California Legislative Web site DE Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Clarifies the qualification requirements for school district donated sick leave programs; allows employees to receive donated leave for these additional days off without having to re-qualify; limits effect to an absence when it is related to an employee's own catastrophic illness and not a family member's catastrophic illness; allow an employee to donate sick leave within 6 months prior to their retirement. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS142.NSF/vwLegislation/SB+269/$file/2381420096.doc/?openelement Title: S.B. 269 Source: Delaware Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Amends an earlier law that captures the savings from the abolition of extended sick leave for teachers. Uses the savings to increase teacher compensation. Bill digest: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LUDL.PDF Full text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LWFW.PDF Title: H.B. 763 Source: www.legis.state.la.us LA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Relates to school employee injuries. Specifies that sick leave with pay for any secretary, paraprofessional employee, school aide, teacher or superintendent of a special school who is injured or disabled while acting in his official capacity as a result of (1) assault or battery by any student or person, or (2) physical contact with a student or others while providing physical assistance to a student to prevent danger or risk of injury to the student or others, may be granted for up to one calendar year. The governing authority of the special school may extend this period beyond one calendar year. If the governing authority of the special school questions the validity of the physician certification allowing for sick leave, the governing authority may require the employee to undergo examination by a physician of the authority's choosing. Should there be a disparity between the diagnoses of the two physicians, a third physician may be called upon to examine the employee; the opinion of the third physician must be determinative. and a six month reevaluation in order to continue to receive sick leave as a result of assault or battery or injury due to certain physical contact to prevent danger or risk of injury. Any teacher in a public school who is injured or disabled while acting in his official capacity as a result of physical contact with a student or others while providing physical assistance to a student to prevent danger or risk of injury to the student or others, may be granted sick leave for up to one calendar year. The same requirements as above apply if the local board questions the validity of the physician certification of such injury or disability. Full text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LVJ7.PDF Title: S.B. 51 Source: www.legis.state.la.us MO Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Amends provisions relating to the Kansas City public school retirement system; allows the board of trustees of the retirement system to use one or more banks for conducting business; provides for certification of a disability for eligible members. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/sb1242.htm Title: S.B. 1242 Source: StateNet MO Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Revises the provisions of existing law relating to the Kansas City Public School Retirement System. Revises the definition of "break in service" to: (7) "Break in service", an occurrence when a regular employee ceases to be a regular employee for any reason other than retirement (including termination of employment, resignation, [retirement] or furlough but not including vacation, sick leave, excused absence or leave of absence granted by an employer) and such person does not again become a regular employee until after sixty consecutive calendar days have elapsed, or after fifteen consecutive school or work days have elapsed, whichever occurs later. A break in service also occurs when a regular employee retires under the retirement system established by section 169.280 and does not again become a regular employee until after fifteen consecutive school or work days have elapsed. A "school or work day" is a day on which the employee's employer requires (or if the position no longer exists, would require, based on past practice) employees having the former employee's last job description to report to their place of employment for any reason; http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/bills/hb1502.htm Title: H.B. 1502 Source: StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Includes guidance counselors holding appropriate ancillary certificates issued by the state department of education in definitions of persons eligible for certain sabbatical and sick leave benefits provided by law. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LUZS.PDF Title: H.B. 493 Source: StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Requires each state and statewide public retirement system to submit its proposed annual operating budget to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget for review and approval. Bars any state public retirement system make any expenditures or obligate itself for items which deviate from its approved operating budget. Establishes a procedure for a state public retirement system to submit a proposed modification to an annual operating budget. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LO5I.PDF Title: H.B. 1200 Source: www.legis.state.la.us OK Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Relates to schools; relates to minimum salary schedule for teachers; increases minimum salaries; adds additional year steps to the minimum salary schedule; provides for military service credit for certain purposes; requires certain experience for employment with the Department of Corrections, the Department of Human Services and certain other state agencies; provides for vocational rehabilitation counselors. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb1272_enr.rtf Title: S.B. 1272 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Defines "actuarial science". Provides for educational training for members of the boards of trustees of the state and statewide retirement systems. Adds the laws, rules, and regulations of the system as an area of required education. Refers to 2 hours of required training in actuarial science information instead of actuarial information. Also requires training in fiduciary duty to be included in existing one-hour ethics instruction requirement. Requires trustees to have completed fiduciary and actuarial science, and legal education training on annual basis as condition for receiving per diem. Digest: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LCJG.PDF Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LRT4.PDF Title: H.B. 373 Source: www.legis.state.la.us DE Rule Adoption 06/2004 P-12 Amends regulation by adding requirements for reauthorization, replication, and re-qualification of clusters and sets forth procedures for payment of salary increments to educators. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/title14/1500/1501%20Knowledge,%20Skills,%20and%20Responsibility%20Based%20Salary%20Supplements%20for%20Educators.shtml#TopOfPage Title: 14 DAC 1501 Source: Delaware State Web site MD Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Allows former members who meet specified criteria to receive service credit in the Teachers' Pension System for military service; requires those former members to complete a claim for service credit and submit proper military forms to the Board of Trustees. http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0397t.rtf Title: S.B. 397 Source: StateNet MI Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Revises definition of "dependent" for public school employee retirement. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0117.pdf Title: H.B. 4244 Source: StateNet MN Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Relates to retirement; modifies provisions in the teachers retirement association and first class city teacher plans; provides for compliance with certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to all retirement plans; includes the correctional employees retirement plan, judges retirement plan, police and fire plan and actuarial audits. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/slaws/2004/c223.html Title: S.F. 806 Source: StateNet AZ Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Concerns limitation on reduction of salaries or personnel in schools; requires notice of general salary reduction prior to the fiscal year it takes place; makes technical correction; specifies exception for reductions in salary from monies from the Classroom Site Fund. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0243.htm Title: H.B. 2102 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site GA Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Amends retirement allowances, disability benefits, and spouses' benefits under the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia to allow a teacher who retired on a service retirement may be employed as a classroom teacher, principal, superintendent, counselor, or librarian without having his or her benefits affected. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hb366.htm Title: H.B. 366 Source: Georgia Legislative Web site MS Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Provides that a licensed nurse who has met the requirements and acquired a certificate form the National Board of Certification of School Nurses, Inc., and who is employed by a local school board or the state Board of Education as a school nurse shall receive an annual salary supplement; deletes the provision of law requiring school counselors to complete a certain certification process for a master teacher certificate in order to continued to receive a supplement. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/SB/2300-2399/SB2302SG.htm Title: S.B. 2302 Source: StateNet TN Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Establishes a method for equalizing the salaries of public school teachers in the state. Under present law, the state commissioner, with the approval of the state board of education, annually formulates a mandated salary schedule applicable to all public school teachers, taking into account training and experience. Local school systems may supplement teachers' salaries with funds from their own local resources based on the local government's ability to raise funds. Further the state board is required to develop a Basic Education Plan (BEP) to allocate funds to local school systems on a fair and equitable basis by recognizing the differences in the ability of local jurisdictions to raise local revenues. In developing the BEP, costs of certain components, including costs of operation and maintenance, textbooks , school food services, pupil transportation, vocational and technical education and other cost items, are taken into consideration. The cost of teachers' salaries is not a component in the formulation of the BEP. The BEP formula is subject to an annual review by the review committee of the actual cost of each component and adjustments are made to the BEP based on the review. Under present law, the BEP has two components, the classroom component and the non-classroom component. The state provides 75percent of funding for the classroom component and 50 percent for the non-classroom component. If state funds available for distribution are insufficient to meet the local public school system entitlements, the commissioner may apply a pro rata reduction to the amount for which each system is eligible. Each local education agency (LEA) must establish a local salary schedule for teachers in the LEA and such schedule must include the same minimum salary level established by the state board. Under present law allocations of state and local funds are made to each LEA whose instructional salaries and employer-paid insurance premiums average less than $28,094 per instructional position. The state supreme court, in Tennessee Small School Systems v. McWherter, 91 S.W.3d 232 (Tenn. 2002), declared that the method of funding public teachers' salaries according to the current BEP is unconstitutional because it does not equalize teachers' salaries and contains no mechanism for cost determination or annual cost review by the BEP review committee of teachers' salaries as is performed with all other cost components of the BEP. The court found that teachers are the most important component of an effective educational plan and that their salaries, a major item in every education budget, are a significant factor in determining where teachers choose to work. The court further noted the large disparity in public school teachers salaries across the state and concluded that a constitutional plan must include equalization of teachers' salaries according to the BEP formula. This bill revises present law in response to the supreme court's ruling. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Summary.asp?BillNumber=HB3510 Title: H.B. 3510 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us MS Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Relates to benefit payments to retirants under the former Teachers' Retirement System. Title: H.B. 1727 Source: StateNet AL Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Public school teachers authorized to contract with local boards of education to work less than full time under certain conditions, provisions for retired teachers. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp Title: H.B. 544 Source: Alabama LEgislative Web site MS Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Relates to teachers; revises contract day requirements for salary experience increments. Increases the number of days from 25 to 45 that a teacher may not be under contract of employment during a school year and still be considered full time employed and credited with a year of teaching experience. This provision is effective with the 2003-2004 school year. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0635SG.pdf Title: H.B. 635 Source: StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to identify benefits for certified staff called to active duty, permit a board of education to provide the employer's contribution for health insurance as long as the certified employee or spouse provides the difference in cost for a family plan; permit military service to count toward continuing service contracts; provide that a certified staff person shall receive credit on the single salary schedule for time spent. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB551/bill.doc Actuarial impact: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB551/AA.doc Title: H.B. 551 Source: StateNet ME Rule Adoption 04/2004 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding retirees returning to employment after retirement with the same employer. Establishes a waiver that must be executed by each reitiree to acknowledge that no future accruals of service credit or increase in earnable compensation will result if the retiree returns to employment. Outlines requirements that must be met in order for a bona fide termination from employment to have occurred such that a retirement benefit can be paid to a below- normal-retirement age retiree. MAINE REG 7805 (SN) Title: 94-411-410 Source: StateNet OK Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Requires the state to pay 100% of teacher health benefits. Requires districts to use the total dollar amount the district was required to pay during school year 2003-04 over and above the flexible benefit allowance for certified personnel -- for instruction costs, including but not limited to new or existing personnel; and to pay the dollar amount that was paid to certified personnel during school year 2003-04 as additional contributions toward employee health insurance, not including the flexible benefit allowance and not including the amount described above -- as taxable compensation or fringe benefits in addition to any other taxable compensation. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb2662_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 2662 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us CO Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Prohibits the payment of a teacher following the initiation of a prosecution for an offense that would result in the loss of licensure. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/ Title: S.B. 152 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site KY Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Requires school districts that missed school days due to emergencies, including weather-related emergencies, to consider certified and classified personnel to have met the 185-day minimum contract with the district, for purposes of service credit for retirement, when specified criteria are met. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB28/bill.doc and http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB28/AA.doc Title: S.B. 28 Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us VA Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Allows licensed teachers employed in a full-time teaching capacity in public schools or in state educational facilities to purchase personal computers and related devices for use outside the classroom on state contract. Title: H.B. 508 Source: StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Establishes a one thousand dollar minimum monthly benefit for public employees retirement system plan 1 members and teachers retirement system plan 1 members who have at least twenty five years of service and who have been retired at least twenty years. Title: H.B. 2538 Source: StateNet CO Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Teachers who have served in an administrative capacities may be assigned to another available position for which they are qualified at the salary corresponding to the position. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/32C9B0113B69294B87256D7C0072DA92?Open&file=1092_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1092 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Amends the minimum teacher salaries. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1047.pdf Title: H.B. 1047 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public school expenditures; increases minimum teacher salaries; establishes a knowledge and skills-based pay system for teachers; provides for school-based performance awards. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB42.pdf Title: S.B. 42 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site DE Rule Adoption 01/2004 P-12 Provides procedures for implementation of movement by educators on the salary schedule set forth in 14 Del.C., Section 1305. Addresses movement from one column to another based on the satisfactory completion of graduate level course work toward a master's degree or graduate level course work completed toward a second master's degree, a doctorate, or as part of a course of study directly related to an educator's job assignment. http://www.state.de.us/research/AdminCode/Education/Education%20Administrative%20Code%20-%201500%20Professional%20Standards%20Board.htm#P126_16752 Title: 14 DAC 1507 Source: Delaware State Web site AR Signed into law 12/2003 P-12 Allows active members of the Teacher Retirement System who have previously elected to eliminate contributions to make an irrevocable election to make future contributions; mandates that any active member whose status changes from nonteacher status to teacher status under contract for 181 days or more shall become contributory. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1069.pdf Title: H.B. 1069 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Relates to existing law that requires a collective bargaining agreement to specify the number of hours of service of part-time employees equals full-time for retirement benefits. Makes that requirement applicable to adult education program instructors. Extends membership election in the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan to any substitute employee. Permits a nonmember spouse to purchase service credit. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0601-0650/sb_627_bill_20031012_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 627 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 10/2003 P-12 Community College Postsec. Authorizes the governing board of a school district or a community college district to approve compensation for all employees who are called to active military duty, without reference to any particular conflict or crisis. Provides the credential of a certificated elementary or secondary school employee would not become invalid while the employee is on active military duty and grants a recertification extension. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0251-0300/sb_259_bill_20031011_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 259 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 P-12 Defines a spouse, for purposes of qualification for survivor's benefits under the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, as a person who was continuously married to the member for the period beginning prior to the injury or onset of the illness that resulted in the member's death and as a person who was married to the member for less than 12 months, if the member's death was accidental or for the period beginning prior to the occurrence of the injury or illness. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_106_bill_20030929_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 106 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2003 P-12 Authorizes a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System to receive credit for an additional 2 years of service if the member's employer takes a specified formal action or an additional 2 years of service and 2 years of age if, prior to January 1, 2005, a specified determination is made by the employer pursuant to the terms of a memorandum of understanding or a specified formal action, the member retires within a certain designated period. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1201-1250/ab_1207_bill_20030821_enrolled.html Title: A.B. 1207 Source: California Legislative Web site MI Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Eliminates number of days required for year of retirement credit for teachers and replaces it with an hour requirement of 1,020 hours in a fiscal year. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/htm/2003-PA-0175.htm Title: H.B. 4453 Source: StateNet IL Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Directs the System to conduct a divided Medicare coverage referendum, open to teachers continuously employed by the same employer since March 31, 1986. Allows eligible teachers to irrevocably elect to participate in the federal Medicare program. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Defines referendum. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=79 Title: H.B. 79 Source: Illinois Legislation Web site HI Vetoed 07/2003 P-12 Appropriates funds for the conversion of ten month counselor positions to twelve month for multi-track schools. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=SB209&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs Title: S.B. 209 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site NJ Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Authorizes boards of education to establish tax- sheltered deferred compensation plans under section 457 of the federal Internal Revenue Code. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2002/Bills/A3500/3385_I1.PDF Title: A.B. 3385 Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us FL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Postsec. Community College Revises options for participants in the Community College Optional Retirement Program; revises certain limitations on positions for which district school boards may employ members after specified period of retirement; revises payroll contribution rates for defined benefit plan for 2003-2004 fiscal year; eliminates compulsory participation in the defined contribution program for reemployed instructional personnel; provides concurrent funding for increased benefits. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0958er.pdf Title: S.B. 958 Source: StateNet MO Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Requires the state board to adopt rules to facilitate job-sharing positions for classroom teachers, as the term "job-sharing" is defined in this section. Rules must allow a classroom teacher in a job-sharing position to receive paid legal holidays, annual vacation leave, sick leave and personal leave on a pro rata basis. "Job-sharing position" must mean any position: (1) Shared with one other employee; (2) Requiring employment of at least seventeen hours per week but not more than twenty hours per week on a regular basis; and (3) Requiring at least seventy percent of all time spent in classroom instruction as determined by the employer; provided that, job sharing position shall not include instructional support or school services positions including, but not limited to, guidance counselor, media coordinator, psychologist, social worker, audiologist, speech and language pathologist, and nursing positions. Specifies that any teacher participating in the job-sharing program must be a member of the public school retirement system, and must receive creditable service on a pro rata basis in that system. Requires any such person to have the option of being a member of the nonteacher school employee retirement system. The option election must be filed with the board of trustees of the public school retirement system within ninety days of first such employment or within ninety days of August 28, 2003, whichever later occurs. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills03/biltxt/truly/HB0346T.HTM Title: H.B. 346 (multiple provisions) Source: www.house.state.mo.us LA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Clarifies that all those serving in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity, including temporary or uncertified teachers, are prohibited from receiving unemployment benefits during summer vacation. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT5/OUT/0000KQG9.PDF Title: S.B. 824 Source: www.legis.state.la.us TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Relates to reimbursing classroom teachers for personal funds expended on classroom supplies. Title: H.B. 1844 Source: StateNet AL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Amends the Administrator Accountability Act (formerly Teacher Accountability Act), including assistant principals, instruction supervisors, and financial officers; provides for contract employment for term, cancellation for cause provisions during contract, use of mediation for hearings, $5,000 bonus for those with current continuing service status, appeals to Court of Civil Appeals; contingent on voter approval of constitutional amendment (HB1). http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027 Title: S.B. 10 Source: Alabama Legislative Web site WA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Suspends teacher cost-of-living provisions for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 school years. Deletes the following provision: Beginning with the 2001-02 school year, the state shall fully fund the cost-of-living increase in this section as part of its obligation to meet the basic education requirements under Article IX of the Washington Constitution. Commits to the following: Beginning with the 2001-2002 fiscal year, and for each subsequent fiscal year except for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 fiscal years, the state shall fully fund the cost-of-living increase set forth in this section. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/Senate/6050-6074/6059_pl.pdf Title: S.B. 6059 Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov CO Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Authorizes a school district retirement system to enter into an agreement to merge into another public employee retirement system including the public employees retirement association, provides for continuing fiduciary liability insurance. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/6CE9F6D02FB03C9287256CD4006035C6?Open&file=250_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 250 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site GA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Provides for an annual increase in state pay for certain teachers; individuals who first became teachers on or after July 1, 2000, acquire rights to continued employment; provides procedures for hearings for such persons; provides for selection of a tribunal, transcripts, legal questions, burden of proof, decisions of the local board, and appeals. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb193.htm Title: S.B. 193 Source: Georgia Legislative Web site CO Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Concerns an extension of the time in which retirees of the public employees retirement association may be employed to work as nonlicensed employees for schools without reducing the retirement benefits of the retirees. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/2EABA5EF22412BD387256CCA004C1CDD?Open&file=1327_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1327 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site GA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Relates to sick and personal leave for teachers and other personnel; provides for restoration of certain forfeited sick and personal leave after return to service for two consecutive years. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/hb25.htm Title: H.B. 25 Source: Georgia Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Eliminates provision that teachers at regular and special public schools are eligible for medical leave sabbaticals only if they have 25 days or fewer of regular sick leave remaining. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB846&doctype=BT Title: H.B. 846 Source: www.legis.state.la.us ME Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Allows teacher who received retirement benefits under state retirement system who returned to covered service to rejoin the system. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD153501-1.asp Title: S.P. 514 (LD 1535) Source: StateNet OK Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 All contracts for employment of, or related employee information worksheets, for a teacher or administrator by a district board of education must include the following categories in a clear and concise format: 1. Employee information including: a. employee's name, b. degree(s) employee holds, c. number of years of teaching credit for salary purposes, and d. step placement on salary schedule. Also must include benefits information. Beginning with the school year 2004-05, the state department is to require in its annual personnel report the amounts paid in each category, disaggregated by the categories of administrative personnel and certified teaching personnel. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04SB/sb715_enr.rtf Title: S.B. 715 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us AZ Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Requires members of the Arizona State Retirement System who want to purchase service credit for previous service with other government entities within the United States to pay an amount determined by the service purchase formula using a prescribed definition of "current annual compensation."  Requires the recalculation of the cost of military service credit purchased by certain members of the Arizona State Retirement System. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2024&x=15&y=8 Title: H.B. 2024 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site MT Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Deletes language that effective on the first day of the pay period that includes a state employee's anniversary date during the fiscal years ending June 30, 2002, and June 30, 2003, the employee's base salary must be increased by 4% or by a lesser amount so that the employee's base salary after the increase does not exceed the maximum salary of the pay grade. Adds new language that effective on the first day of the first complete pay period that includes January 1, 2005, the base salary of each employee must be increased by an amount equal to 25 cents an hour or by a lesser amount so that the employee's base salary after the increase does not exceed the maximum salary of the pay grade. Specifies that pay increase for a member of a bargaining unit is contingent upon legislative authorization of a pay increase for state employees. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0013.htm Title: H.B. 13 Source: data.opi.state.mt.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Adds that another goal of statewide team-based variable pay pilot program is to compare student achievement gains in participating districts with student achievement gains in nonparticipating districts. Requires the department to offer technical assistance in goal setting and student assessment to districts participating in the pilot program, and that priority must be given to districts that were previously approved to participate in a team-based variable pay pilot program. States that district that chooses to begin team-based variable pay plan in school year starting July 1, 2003 (rather than 2001) must inform the department by August 1, 2003 (rather than 2001), and that the department must certify the district plan by October 1, 2003 (rather than 2001). See Section 50: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Changes from fourth to fifth year the year in which a school district participating in the teacher quality program must provide two noninstructional contract days more than were offered in the academic year before the first year of program participation, for supplemental time for teacher career development aligned with student learning and teacher development needs. Also adds to existing requirement that district must adopt teacher career development plans, to say that district must adopt district career development plans. See Section 40: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Eliminates language ending fund distribution program on June 30, 2003. See Section 46: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Repeals sections of code relating to Phase III program, which establishes system of teacher performance pay. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/2003/ Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Establishes minimum teacher salary requirements for the 2003-04 fiscal year. See Section 68: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cgi-bin/Legislation/File_only.pl?FILE=/usr/ns-home/docs/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00549/030508.html Title: H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Source: www.legis.state.ia.us HI Vetoed 04/2003 P-12 Creates a collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers of the Department of Education, including part-time employees working less than one- half of a full-time equivalent. Allows the members of bargaining unit (14) to strike. Prohibits bargaining over wages as long as the wages of these employees are established in law. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1426_.htm; http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus2.asp?billno=SB1426 Title: S.B. 1426 Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site WA Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Offers health care benefit plans to school district employees. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2003-04/Senate/5225-5249/5236-s_pl.pdf Title: S.B. 5236 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Increases the annual bonus of teachers obtaining national board for professional teaching standards certification. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/HB2903.pdf Title: H.B. 2903 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Amends the Teacher Salary Schedule; requires districts to credit teachers for all teaching experience. Title: H.B. 2450 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site ND Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 1. Before September eleventh of each year, each school district is requried to report the following information to the superintendent of public instruction, with respect to each teacher and class of teachers and with respect to each administrator and class of administrators: a. The number of days each was employed during the preceding school year. b. The base salaries. c. The amount of compensation provided for extended contracts. d. The amount of compensation provided for cocurricular activities. e. The amount expended for contract buyouts. f. The amount of compensation provided in lieu of salaries. g. The amount paid for signing bonuses. h. The amount of compensation provided for substitute teaching and workload adjustment. i. The amount of compensation provided for any other purposes. j. The amount expended for health insurance benefits. k. The amount expended for dental, vision, and cancer insurance benefits. l. The amount expended for life and long-term disability insurance benefits. m. The amount of retirement contributions and assessments, including individual shares if paid by the district. n. The district's share of Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes. o. The amount of dues or membership fees paid by the district. p. Any other benefits provided by the district. 2. In addition to the requirements of subsection 1, each school district must also indicate: a. Whether each teacher and administrator is employed on a full-time or a part-time basis. b. The number of days used to determine the base salary of each teacher and administrator. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DBBJ0500.pdf Title: H.B. 1295 Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly MS Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Allows any licensed employee to be credited with a professional leave allowance with pay for every day of absence caused by required attendance at meetings pertaining to official state business and authorized by local board policy. Changes references in sick and personal leave policy from "absent licensed employee" to "absent employee." In same section, changes references to "substitute teachers" to "substitute employees." Allows substitute teachers to be paid from minimum education program funds. Specifies that except for in December, all employees' salaries are to be paid on at least a monthly basis according to a system established by the local board. Specifies that, regardless of the reason employment ended, any school employee whose employment terminates during a school term is to be paid only for the part of the school term that the employee actually worked. In determining a teacher's "year of teaching experience," if a teacher surpasses the number of days the state board has determined a teacher may not be under contract but may still be employed, the teacher must not be credited a year of teaching experience. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0742SG.htm Title: H.B. 742 Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us AR Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Allows a member of the Arkansas teacher retirement system to purchase service credit for service as a teacher with the federal government. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003/public/SB8.pdf Title: S.B. 8 Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site NM Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2003 P-12 Relates to public schools; enacts a new section of the public school code to provide for substitute teachers' salaries. Title: S.B. 777 Source: StateNet NC Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Postsec. Community College Provides that state employees, public school employees, and community college employees may share leave voluntarily. Title: H.B. 432 Source: StateNet WV Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Relates to authorizing service credit toward retirement to public employees for public employment in another state. Title: S.B. 455 Source: StateNet MT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Allows retired teachers, specialists and administrators to return to work part- or full-time without loss or interruption of benefits. To participate, member may not have been receiving disability retirement allowance, must hold valid certificate, must have been receiving a retirement for at least 12 months, and employer must prove to department it has been unable to fill position because no applications have been received and no nonretired teacher, specialist or adminstrator has offered to fill the position. Retired member reemployed in this way is not eligible for active membership. The department and the teachers' retirement system must report to the appropriate committee in the 2007 legislative session on the implementation and results of this policy. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0178.htm Title: H.B. 178 Source: data.opi.state.mt.u NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Amends Section 22-10A-6 to require the state board to set requirements that provide a reasonable period of time for teachers to comply with the reading course (3 hours) requirement. Adds new section (22-10A-7), which establishes requirements for level one licensure - a three-year license. Districts must provide for mentorship and evaluation of level one teachers. At the end of this term, teachers must be evaluated for competency, and unless progress has been satisfactory, should not be granted a level two license. Level one requires: BA, successful completion of a state-board approved teacher preparation program from a nationally accredited or state-approved institution; has passed the New Mexico teacher assessments examination; meets other requirements such as background checks. Allows department to issue alternative level one licenses to applicants who meet requirements of 10A-8: BA, masters, including 12 graduate hours in subject area of instruction for which applying for a license or doctoral or law degree; passed New Mexico teacher assessments examination; 12 semester hours in teaching principles in an approved program or demonstrated that has met the state board-approved competencies for level one teachers that correspond to the grade level that will be taught. Requires state board to establish competencies for specific grade levels, types and subject areas. Sets minimum salary for a level one teacher at $30,000 - beginning with 2003-2004 school year (with state board adoption of highly objective uniform statewide standard of evaluation). Level two and Level three licenses (22-10A-10) are established. Both are nine-year license. Sets minimum salary requirements for each. Level 3 licenses have levels A & B. 22-10A-12 adds limited license reciprocity. 22-10A-13 adds Native American Language and Culture Certificates for persons proficient in Native American language and culture who meets criteria established by the state board. Does not require a BA. 22-10A-14 allows emergency waivers for persons with BAs who do not meet other requirements for one year. Renewable if holder makes continued progress. Assignment waivers also available. 22-10A-15 establishes Substitute Teacher Certificate, for which state board is to set requirements. 22-10A-16 requires parental notification re: teacher qualifications in district and for notices to be made to parents when children have had less than qualified teachers for four consecutive weeks. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/house/HB0212MarkedUp.pdf Title: H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Source: New Mexico Legislature MS Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Grants teacher assistants the same sick leave allowances as licensed school employees. Allows up to five days of unused sick leave to be carried over to the next school year and credited to such licensed employee if the employee remains employed in the same school district. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2313SG.pdf Title: S.B. 2313 Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Requires the school accountability report card to include the rate of pupils who earn Governor's scholarship awards. Deletes provisions which limit the amount of compensation of a school board member. Deletes the certification requirement regarding charter school revenue limits. Relates to the computation of average daily attendance. Permits a county superintendent of schools to grant an exemption from minimum expenditures for classroom teacher salaries. Title: A.B. 1818 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Requires the State Personnel Administration to consider making salaries for teachers, specialists, and administrators of the State special schools and diagnostic centers competitive with the salaries of similarly qualified school teachers, specialists, and administrators who are employed by the encompassing school districts. Title: A.B. 2444 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Clarifies the status of teachers participating in foreign exchange programs for purposes of retirement and tenure; includes any nonimmigrant alien employed in elementary or secondary public schools and participating in an exchange visitor program. Title: H.B. 1724 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Permits retired teachers to work as full-time teachers or improvement specialists in low-performing schools. Limits number of retired teachers district may hire, number of years a retired teacher may be re-employed. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/Legis/2001_02/fulltext/hb210.htm Title: H.B. 210 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us AZ Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Relates to school district insurance; permits public agencies to jointly purchase workers' compensation, property and liability insurance or reinsurance; provides for formation of pools for health, accident, life and disability insurance; permits private, nonprofit educational institutions to participate in the pool if a bond or comparable financial security is posted; provides for contracting with a third party for coverage. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0240.htm Title: H.B. 2198 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AZ Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 05/2002 P-12 Extends availability of public agency pooling of property, liability, workers' compensation and disability coverage to charter schools and private schools; requires posting of a bond. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0134.htm Title: S.B. 1377 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Creates new section on charter school capital outlay. According to legislative summary, bill "requires the full-credit for teaching service to apply to experience in charter schools, either in-state or out-of-state" and revises charter school purposes "to include both mandatory and permissive objectives." Gives charter schools exemption from fees for building permits and impact and service availability fees. Gives state commissioner authority to identify in writing a dedicated funding source for charter school capital outlay. States that charter schools are not exempt from law mandating provision of services to limited-English proficient students; removes Commissioner's waiver provisions; demands that nonrenewed charter schools be held in trust, pending appeal. Establishes a Charter School Appeal Commission composed of 1/2 representatives of school district and 1/2 representatives of charter operators to review and make recommendations to the state board regarding charter school appeals. Designates state board decision in charter school appeals as binding. Also section on charter technical career centers that deletes commissioner's waiver provisions. See bill section 98, page 207, line 28 ff and bill section 99, page 245, line 1: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/session/2002E/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0020Eer.pdf Title: S.B. 20E Source: www.leg.state.fl.us GA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Relates to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; provides that any member of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia may obtain creditable service for years employed in certain early childhood development programs or certain private schools. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/Legis/2001_02/fulltext/hb765.htm Title: H.B. 765 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us IA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Requires state board to establish standards for district and area education agency career development programs and for individual teacher career development plans. Requires state director to develop a transition plan for implementation of the career development standards established in statute relating to licensure renewal. Moves national board certification registration deadline for purposes of payment of one-half of national board certification fee from June 30, 2002 to June 30, 2005. Teachers must likewise register for national board certification by June 30, 2005 and be certified in three years to obtain 2,500 annual award. Eliminates age limitations of employees eligible for early retirement incentives, leaving these to local board discretion. Includes licensed preschool teachers in definition of "beginning teachers," "classroom teachers," and "teachers." Eliminates requirement that beginning teacher's mentor be classroom teacher. Creates new defintions for "intensive assistance" and "performance reviews" for non-beginning teachers. Revises section requiring boards to provide for evaluations of beginning teachers and performance reviews for non-beginning teachers. Requires state board to adopt state director-developed model criteria for teacher evaluation, advancement and career development. Encourages districts to evaluate their current career development alignment with their student achievement goals and research-based instructional strategies, and implement district career development plans. Reduces from 5 to 3 years the frequency with which teacher performance reviews must be conducted, and requires that these be based in part on individual career development plans. Makes additional changes to beginning teacher evaluation system and teacher career development programs. Establishes timeline for development of administrator preparation program. Establishes minimum teacher salary requirements. Requires department to undertake study of feasibility of change to student achievement and teacher quality program. Creates statewide career path pilot program: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/HF/02500/HF02549/Current.html Title: H.B. 2549 Source: www.legis.state.ia.us NH Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Requires that employees of school districts electing to join the retirement system after a certain date shall include certain paraprofessional and support positions; relates to special education, library, and health aides. Title: H.B. 1373 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Relates to school employees sick leave benefits to include foster care in the definition of immediate family. Title: H.B. 56 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Relates to teachers; grants a percentage increase in compensation at least equal to the cost-of-living adjustment that is provided state government workers; specifies that a local school district may develop differentiated compensation programs that provide additional compensation; establishes a professional compensation fund to provide grants to local districts. Title: H.B. 402 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Relating to the salaries of public education employees, to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule and to reflect pay increases of three percent beginning with the fiscal year 2002-2003; to provide that each certificated employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step and in addition to the salary earned during the previous year; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a three percent cost-of-living adjustment; to provide the employees of other public educational institutions and schools with a three percent cost-of-living adjustment; to provide for an across-the-board salary increase of all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, and to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; to establish definitions; to establish miscellaneous pay provisions; to require appropriations in the annual budget act to meet the re quirements of this act; and, in connection therewith, would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb340.htm Title: H.B. 340 Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us AL Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Provides for a cost-of-living adjustment for certain retirees and beneficiaries of the Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement System.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb227.htm Title: H.B. 227 Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us AL Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Allows purchase of credit towards teacher's retirement system in the State for those persons who were full-time employees of the Southeastern Educational Laboratory Program between September 1, 1967, and March 31, 1969. Sets deadline for purchase of such credit. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb12.htm Title: H.B. 12 Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us CA Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Relates to unemployment insurance. Relates to annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature by the strike force on the underground economy. Requires the annual reports to be made by June 30 of each year. Requires that the Director of Employment Development as chairperson of the strike force provide certain information to school employers by March 31st of each year. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1701-1750/ab_1729_bill_20020423_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1729 Source: info.sen.ca.gov CO Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Allows local board that obtains insufficient number of applicants for teaching positions to adopt a resolution declaring a critical shortage of teachers, which is valid for one year. Establishes criteria that must be met before district may declare critical shortage. Allows teacher receiving retirement benefits to receive salary from such district without decrease in retirement benefits, and with eligibility to participate in district's health plan while working as a teacher. Specifies that service retiree working at school in district declaring critical shortage of teachers may receive a salary without a reduction in benefits regardless of the sum of days or hours worked in the calendar year, as long as the service retiree has not worked for any state employer during the month of the date of retirement, but is subject to a reduction in benefits if the service retiree did work for a state employer during the month of effective retirement. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/F5D1A560A07AE8FC87256B3D00000BB9?Open&file=145_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 145 Source: www.leg.state.co.us FL Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Exempts all records which identify individual participants in the Florida Retirement System and their account activities under the Public Employee Optional Retirement Program from the public records law to the extent such records need not be revealed in the administration of the Florida Retirement System or in connection with a legal or administrative proceeding. Title: H.B. 935 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Preserves retirement benefits for teachers who serve in the Legislature; provides that any Legislator who is a public school teacher or an employee of the Vocational-Technical Institute System who takes a leave of absence in order to serve as a Legislator may make contributions to the State Retirement System on the amount that represents the difference between the salary earned as a Legislator and the salary of a teacher. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/bills/billdocs/LD200601.doc Title: H.B. 1503 Source: janus.state.me.us ME Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Includes in state retirement system statutes an employee responsible for, in addition to duties for which certification is required, either the setup, maintenance or upgrading of a school computer system the use of which is to assist in the introduction of new learning to students or to provide orientation and training to school faculty on the use of the computer system for educational purposes. Title: H.B. 1686 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Addresses the unfunded liability of the state retirement system and the equity of retirement benefits for state employees and teachers. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/bills/billdocs/LD219901.doc Title: S.B. 819 Source: janus.state.me.us IN Vetoed 03/2002 P-12 Provides a cost of living adjustment in 2003 for pensions of members of the Public Employees' Retirement Fund or their survivors or beneficiaries; provides a cost of living adjustment in 2003 to members of the state Teachers' Retirement Fund or their survivors or beneficiaries, who retired or were disabled before 7/2/2000. Title: H.B. 1065 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Eliminates specific dates for notification of reductions in teacher salaries or responsibilities in order to create uniform notice periods for school districts operating on year-round and traditional calendars. Title: H.B. 332 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Gives the health care authority to publish and distribute to nonparticipating school districts and educational service districts by October 1st of each year a description of health care benefit plans available through the authority and the estimated cost if school districts and educational service district employees were enrolled. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/House/2525-2549/2536-s_sl_03282002.txt Title: H.B. 2536 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Increases salaries for teachers and service personnel; makes provisions for science grants, early childhood education, transportation for vocational education students, and a study of pupil-teacher ratios. Title: S.B. 247 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Regards the salary formula for state-funded basic education certificated instructional staff; provides that the salary allocations shall be calculated by the superintendent of public instruction by using the statewide salary allocation schedule and related documents, conditions, andlimitations established by the omnibus appropriations act. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/Senate/6800-6824/6823-s_pl_03142002.txt Title: S.B. 6823 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Includes former military personnel's years of classroom instruction in the definition of the term year of teaching experience as used for determining teachers' salaries in public schools. Title: S.B. 2168 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IN Vetoed 03/2002 P-12 Assigns school employees to different service credit accounts based on employment pre- or post-1996. Title: S.B. 233 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Public Law No. 03/2002 P-12 Terminates the Educational Leave Advisory Board; declares the educational leave program for state employees to be in public interest. Title: H.B. 1616 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 01/2002 P-12 Provides for a deferred retirement option plan for active and contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System. Title: S.B. 82 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2001 Postsec. Relates to California State University Faculty Members. Provides that temporary faculty of the California State University who work 40% of full-time or more, shall not be excluded from membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System if so provided in a collective bargaining agreement or by the university trustees with respect to excluded employees. Title: A.B. 1081 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 07/2001 P-12 Deletes the provisions requiring teachers (contingent upon salary increases) to work an additional three days for staff development. Title: H.B. 1447 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 07/2001 P-12 Eliminates the requirement that the sine die general fund revenue estimate increase by at least 5% annually as a prerequisite to implementing increases in salaries for teachers and assistant teachers and in the allotment for supportive services in accordance with the plan to raise teachers' salaries to the southeastern average. Title: H.B. 1A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Public Law No. 442., (LD 1255) Repeals the current law that establishes a cap on the earnings of retired members of the State Retirement System who return to work as State employees or teachers; allows those retirees to return to covered employment and continue to receive full retirement benefits. Title: H.B. 941 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NV Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Appropriates funds to cover 3% cost of living bonuses for all education personnel. Title: S.B. 458 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NV Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Requires boards of trustees of school district to place a teacher who has been employed by another school district in this State on the salary schedule that is commensurate with the level of education of the teacher; requires school district to give administrators credit for previous administrative service and place them in a salary schedule comparable to their former classification; revises provisions governing certain employees who voluntarily leave their employment. Title: A.B. 380 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NV Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Relates to achievement and proficiency examinations administered in public schools; revises provisions governing the increase of salary for a teacher who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requires school districts to create and operate regional training programs for professional development of teachers and administrators; authorizes licensure and employment of teachers who are not citizens of the United States. Title: S.B. 3A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Expands the resident teacher program to include early childhood teachers. (One-year residency program is required as part of the Oklahoma Teacher Preparation Act.) Title: S.B. 499 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb499_enr.rtf OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Modifies the minimum salary schedule for teachers, setting the base for salary and/or fringe benefits for a beginning teacher with a bachelor's degree at $27,060. Title: H.B. 1189 Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Except for school districts with one or more school sites which are identified as low performing or high challenged, all school districts shall be exempt from reporting to the state board the following legislatively-mandated plans: Comprehensive Local Education Plan; school improvement plan; professional development plan; capital improvement plan; and reading sufficiency plan, provided the last reading sufficiency plan submitted by the school district was approved by the state department of education and expenditures for the program include only expenses relating to individual and small group tutoring, assessment, summer school programs, and Saturday school programs. Title: H.B. 1433 Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site TN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to reimburse up to 100 teachers for evaluation fees incurred while obtaining certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Current law authorizes reimbursement of up to 25 teachers. Requires payment of $2,500 per year to nationally certified public school teachers who have a valid teaching license and valid certification, subject to funding in the general appropriations act. Title: S.B. 1881/H.B. 1921--Omnibus Bill Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us FL Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Provides for distribution to classroom teachers who provided international baccalaureate instruction certain bonuses; eliminates the requirement that certain instructional personnel make an election to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within 12 months after reaching normal retirement date; authorizes a review by a principal prior to reassigning a teacher; deletes provisions relating to salary supplements provided to teachers selected to teach at certain low-performing schools. Title: H.B. 1193 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Relates to educational employees and certain other employees; provides for accumulation of unlimited days of sick leave; amends various sections. Title: S.B. 91 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Amends Chapter 18A to adjust the minimum salary schedule for teachers ($1,000 increase in basic salaries). Also amends the salary supplements connected to national board of professional teaching standards -- beginning July, 2001, changes from $1,000 to $2,500 to be paid annually to each classroom teacher who holds a valid certificate issued by the national board of professional teaching standards for the life of the certification, but in no event more than ten years for any one certification. Title: H.B. 102 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Relates to school finance; establishes that compensation increases shall be established as part of the teacher's base salary. Title: S.B. 1263 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet HI Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Relates to collective bargaining cost items; appropriates funds to pay for public school teacher raises. Title: S.B. 1379 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Specifies that the additional annuity savings account contributions that may be made by a Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) member or a Teacher's Retirement Fund (TRF) member may not exceed 10% of the member's compensation; provides that a governing body of a unit that is participating in PERF is not required to request a survey of the estimated cost of participation, and the PERF board is not required to provide an estimate of the costs of participation. Title: S.B. 107 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Public Law No. 192.,& 181 (LD 1754)Relates to the Maine State Retirement System; establishes the Consumer Price Index as the benchmark for the cost-of-living adjustments; establishes standards for the determination by the Board of Trustees of the Maine State Retirement System; allows service credit in order to qualify for a service retirement benefit under a special plan to a State employee, teacher member or participating local district member interrupting employment for any services. Title: S.B. 576 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Provides for pay and benefits for state employees in the statewide, teachers', and blue collar pay plans; revises the departments authority to develop alternative pay plans; eliminates the statutory pay schedule for teachers; increases the state contribution to the employee group benefits program. Title: H.B. 13 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Makes an appropriation to the Department of Education to provide salary increases to teachers in special settings that may not be eligible for extraordinary salary increases for the 2001-2003 biennium. Title: S.B. 693 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Pertains to payment to teachers for additional contract days. This legislation establishes the pay rules for increased work days. Title: H.B. 2375 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE EDUCATOR'S COMPENSATION ACT OF 2001, NO SCHOOL DISTRICT SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM PAYING CERTIFIED STAFF ADDITIONAL SALARY INCREASES AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SALARY SCHEDULE EVEN THOUGH THE CERTIFIED STAFF IS NOT EMPLOYED AN ADDITIONAL TIME PERIOD LONGER THAN THE PERIOD COVERED BY THE SALARY SCHEDULE OR REQUIRED TO PERFORM DUTIES IN ADDITION TO THE CERTIFIED EMPLOYEES REGULAR TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS. Title: H.B. 2653 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 Postsec. Amends Arkansas code 6-63-309 to allow institutions of higher education to exceed the maximum salary levels for exceptionally well qualified personnel; relates to non-academic personnel; relates to non-classified personnel. Title: S.B. 583 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Provides for an adjustment in the annuities of those members who retired early under the Teacher Retirement System. Title: S.B. 232 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Act No. 169., Relates to sick leave for teachers and other public school personnel; provides that sick leave shall not be charged for certain periods of absence due to certain injuries sustained during the performance of duties which are caused by physical assault. Title: H.B. 164 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance, retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed as principals and supervisors of principals; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency; clarifies that retirees must meet performance requirements for each year of their employment prior to retirement; provides for the act's termination. Title: H.B. 442, S.B. 221 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ND Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Relates to definitions, annuities, participation by retired members who have resumed teaching, and confidentiality of records under the Teacher's Fund for Retirement. Title: H.B. 1101 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Sections 60-62 amends the Educational Retirement Act (ERA) to provide incentives to retain experienced teachers in the classroom. First, it increases the multiplier for calculating retirement benefits for employees under the ERA who have more than 25 years of service. On a incremental scale, the multiplier will increase from 2.35 percent up to a maximum of 2.50 percent for employees with 30 or more years of service. Second, it enhances average annual salary computations for certain members. Finally, it establishes provisions allowing for the return to employment during retirement. Title: S.B. 308 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Effective January 1, 2002, a retired member may be re-employed without having to suspend retirement benefits if the member has not been employed as an employee or independent contractor by a local administrative unit for at least twelve consecutive months from the date of retirement. Such person is entitled to continue to receive retirement benefits but is not entitled to acquire service credit. A retired member who returns to employment shall not make contributions to the fund. Appropriates $121,500 to the educational retirement board for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 to fund three full-time-equivalent employees to carry out the provisions of this act. Title: H.B. 152 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Sections 31 through 41 provide new language to the existing Public School Code and enact a three-tiered system of teacher licensure with a minimum salaries specified for each licensure level. This would apply to both standard 9 ½ month contract and for an annualized contract. Title: S.B. 308 Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site WA Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Increases the number of hours that teachers' retirement system plan retirees may work in an eligible position to 840 without a reduction in their retirement benefits. Title: H.B. 1048 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ID Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Increases the base salary of teachers, classified personnel and administrative staff; provides for a new minimum salary in each category; requires school districts to adjust the salary schedule to meet the requirement. Title: S.B. 1114 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Allows teachers and other school employees to receive gifts or compensation in recognition of the employee's contribution to education. Title: H.B. 1063 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 ANY TEACHER NOT RECEIVING INDIVIDUAL PLANNING TIME AS PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE COMPENSATED FOR THE PLANNING TIME LOST AT HIS OR HER HOURLY RATE OF PAY. Title: S.B. 944 Source: State Legislation AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Increase teacher pay in the state by $1,000 (over 2001 pay) in 2002 and by $3,000 (over 2001 pay) in 2003. Title: S.B. 598 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Allows retirants of the Teacher Retirement System to become an active member in order to participate in the Teacher Deferred Retirement Option Plan (T-DROP). Title: S.B. 194 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Authorizes nonteaching school district employees who are members of the public employees' retirement system to have nonteaching service after July 1, 2001 covered under the teacher retirement system. Title: H.B. 1078 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Allows members of the Teacher Retirement System to retire and return to work within 30 days and repeals the earnings limitations after retirement. Title: H.B. 1272 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Concerns the maintenance of public employee retirement benefits for retirees who are hired by a school district during a critical shortage of employees. Title: H.B. 1186 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Relates to reorganization; provides that certain employees of the Workforce Development Cabinet, Department of Adult Education and Literacy, and the Department for Technical Education may continue to participate in Teachers' Retirement and that others may opt out; provides that certain employees participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System. Title: H.B. 88 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WY Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Relates to the national teacher certification incentive; modifies program reimbursement levels; eliminates the delayed repeal of the program. Title: S.B. 13 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Increases the lump-sum death benefits for active and retired members of the Teacher Retirement System. Title: S.B. 167 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Provides an increase in the additional monthly benefit for all retirees in the Teacher Retirement System. Title: S.B. 171 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AR Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Amends the teacher retirement system law to define the normal retirement age for the system and adds provisions concerning the normal retirement age. Title: S.B. 170 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SD Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Any teacher that teaches a course over the Digital Dakota Network shall receive additional compensation for each course and from each school for which the teaching services are provided. Title: H.B. 1291 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/ AZ Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Community College (S.B. 1007E) Provides for an increase to the transaction privilege tax rate from 5.0% to 5.6% to provide greater funding for teacher salaries, to increase the school year, for the development of a system to measure school performance based on student achievement and a database to track student attendance and academic performance, and to provide additional funding for other maintenance and operation education programs, University research and development programs and community college workforce development; makes the act conditional on the voter approving the general transaction privilege tax rate increase at the next general election. Legislative Council analysis: http://www.sosaz.com/election/2000/info/pubpamphlet/english/prop301.htm Proposition 301 approved in November 2000 election with 53.5% voter support. Title: Proposition 301 Source: Arizona Secretary of State Web site OR Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 (Initiative No. 29 Measure 95) Amends the Oregon Constitution regarding performance pay for teachers; provides that student learning determines teacher pay; establishes that the teachers' qualifications, not seniority, determine retention. Title: V. 19; (NEW BILL) Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Postsec. INITIATIVE 732; Provides annual cost-of-living salary adjustments to school district employees, academic employees of community and technical college districts, and certain employees of technical colleges; bases the annual increase on the consumer price index. Title: V. 27 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Relates to the Personal Income Tax Law which authorizes various credits against the tax imposed by that law, including a credit, for each taxable year beginning on or after 01/01/2000, to credentialed teachers. Clarifies the calculation of this credit by revising and recasting those provisions setting forth the second alternative measurement of the amount of the credit. Title: A.B. 1080 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Chapter No. 331, Declares that a substantial public benefit is served by providing federal tax credits or reduced interest rate mortgages to assist teachers, principals, vice principals, and assistant principals who are willing to serve in low performing schools to purchase a home. Title: A.B. 2060 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Revises the incentive formula established for purposes of the Jack O'Connell Beginning-Teacher Salary Incentive Program which authorizes the governing board of a school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the county board of education to increase, for teachers who meet certain requirements, the salary on its adopted certificated employee salary schedule. Title: A.B. 1087 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Relates to the State Teachers' Retirement Law. Prescribes enhanced service retirement allowances for members who retired for service and who reinstate and perform at least one year of creditable service, as specified. Makes related findings and declarations. Title: S.B. 1692 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Extends the workers' compensation law provision that certain peace officers, firefighters, and other specified state and local public employees are entitled to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of employment to include peace officers of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Title: S.B. 2081 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Chapter No.897, Establishes a Retirement Option Program that would allow members of the Defined Benefit Program to elect to receive a lump-sum payment and a reduced monthly allowance, as specified. Directs the Board of Administration of the State Teachers' Retirement system to implement the program no later than January 1, 2002, except as specified. Title: A.B. 2456 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Provides that the earnings paid to a member who retired from service on or before July 1, 2000, and who is employed by a school district to provide direct remedial instruction, as defined, to pupils in grades 2 to 12, inclusive. States they are exempt from provisions concerning reduction of retirement allowance if certain other conditions are met. Title: A.B. 1736 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Authorizes the governing board of a school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the county boards of education, commencing with the 2000-01 fiscal year, to increase the lowest salary on the salary schedule for a certificated employee that meets certain requirements by designating as the lowest salary on the salary schedule an amount that is at least a specified amount in the 2000-01 fiscal year. Title: S.B. 1643 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Exempts, commencing in the 2000-01 school year, a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System who retired for service effective 01/01/00, and is employed to provide direct classroom instruction to pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or to provide support to new teachers, individual completing student teaching assignments or participating in the Preinternship Teaching Program, an alternative certification program, or as specified. Title: S.B. 1666 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Postsec. Raises the amount of part time gross pay retired professors and teachers may earn from employment by a state college or the Department of Education. Title: S.B. 2376 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Allows a credit for each taxable year beginning on or after 01/01/2000, to credentialed teachers in an amount equal to specified amounts depending upon years of service as a teacher. Title: A.B. 2879 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MA Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2000 P-12 Improves teacher recruitment, retention and retirement. Creates an early retirement system, which the Governor has opposed. Title: H.B. 5116 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualifications; provides bonuses for certain teachers; requires Education Commissioner to adopt rules to define teaching mastery; renames the Division of Human Resource Development within the Department of Education as the Division of Professional Educators; clarifies requirements for performance-based pay policies. Title: H.B. 63 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Relates to the Defined Benefit Program, established by the Teacher's Retirement Law. Establishes the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, as specified, pursuant to which members of the Defined Benefit Program would receive supplemental retirement, disability, final, or termination benefits, payable in a lump-sum or annuity, as specified. Title: A.B. 1509 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Concerns maintenance of public employee retirement benefits for retirees who are hired as nonlicensed employees by a school district during a critical employee shortage. Title: H.B. 1222 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare program; provides for assistance to families in evaluating summer recreation and day camp programs; increases family income limits for subsidized child care; relates to federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funding; relates to child care facility licensing. Title: S.B. 212 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Goal is to increase pay for elementary and secondary teachers in amount necessary (determined by legislature) to annually achieve statewide average equal to the Southern Regional Education Board average. Same applies to postsecondary faculty. Provides 4% for all other personnel of elementary and secondary systems and of universities under jurisdiction of the Board of Regents in amounts as determined by the legislature. Not less than 80% of monies in Educational Enhancement Fund to be used for pay increases and other purposes. Title: H.B. 30B Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Prohibits school districts from increasing or reducing fringe benefits to meet the $3,000 salary increase mandated for teachers. Clarifies that school districts that do not use the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System are to be penalized by reduction in state aid payments. Authorizes department of education to reduce state aid payments to districts that willfully pay teachers less than the mandated minimum salary. Raises the flexible benefit allowance for support personnel to $170.24 per month. Extends the date by which school districts must provide alternative education and repeals the duplicate section. Title: S.B. 901 Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes linkage with the Teachers' National Average Salary Bill; relates to the Teacher Tenure Law; provides for the appeal of transfers of teachers; adds failure to perform duties to grounds for termination., Title: H.B. 285 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 To appropriate for the fiscal year beginning 10/1/2001, and for each fiscal year thereafter 41.15% of any increase in Education Trust Fund revenues from the previous fiscal year as estimated by the Director Of Finance and approved by the Governor for teacher salary increases until such time the national average for teachers' salaries is reached as determined by the Director of Finance and approved by the Governor. Title: H.B. 204 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Requires the state to add 1 percent to salaries for teachers in any public school system that increases teachers pay by 4 percent and provide additional funds for other educational purposes. (Under this Teacher Salaries Challenge Program, teachers would receive a 10 percent pay raise by the fall of 2001.) Title: S.B. 810 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Declares the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Housing and Community Development develop a program to promote homeownership opportunities for teachers in consultation with the State Board of Education and local boards of education; provides for the effective date of this Act. Title: S.B. 206 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Provides further for the conditions under which a person retired under the Teachers' Retirement System or the Employees' Retirement System may be employed by an employer participating in either of the systems without having his or her retirement allowance suspended. Title: S.B. 485 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Provides an equivalent percent cost-of-living adjustment for certain public education employees with the beginning of the 2000-2001 fiscal year; requires a revision of the state salary matrix for certificated personnel; requires revisions of local salary schedules to reflect the cost-of-living adjustments for the 2000-2001 fiscal year. Title: H.B. 202 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Chapter No. 22; Relates to State Teachers' Retirement Law, the service retirement allowance of a retired member shall be reduced if the member's postretirement compensation from specified activities exceeds a certain dollar amount; however, creditable service performed by a retired member in an emergency situation to fill a vacant administrative position is exempt from the calculation of that earnings limitation in specified circumstances. Title: A.B. 141 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Creates the Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act. Beginning in 2002, at least 20% of educator's performance evaluation will be tied to student improvement -- teachers and administrators who fail to measure up can be dismissed. Establishes more rigorous system of professional development, teaching standards, licensure and certification requirements; expands the salary system to include compensations for skills and knowledge. Encourages focused, career-long professional development and compensates teachers for additional responsibilities or becoming National Board certified. Ends social promotion - beginning in 2002, students reading below the standard in 3rd, 5th and 8th grades will be required to attend summer school and meet standard to move to next grade. Same provisions apply to 8th graders for math. Students not meeting standards will receive mandatory individual improvement plans (some state funds available for extra time instruction). Future students must demonstrate they meet 10th grade standards in language arts and math to receive academic diploma. Title: S.B. 260 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Establishes and implements a superior-performing and exemplary schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in their classification; provides for school improvement plans for priority schools and the appointment of assistance teams; provides professional development and evaluation of principals, teachers and superintendents; raises salaries for teachers and assistant teachers. Title: H.B. 1134 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Establishes the Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program; requires the State Board of Education to make specified grants to county boards of education under certain circumstances; requires county boards of education under certain circumstances to submit certain applications to the Department of Budget and Management and the State Superintendent of Schools by a certain date. Title: H.B. 1247 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Includes public school librarians' professional experience in public libraries in the definition of the term year of teaching experience as used for determining their salaries in the public schools. Title: H.B. 903 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Relates to teachers' retirement act; defines critical shortage area as a lack of certified teachers in particular subject matters, in grade levels, or in geographic locations as determined by the commissioner of education; implements the hiring of teachers in critical shortage areas; provides that a retired member may return to work in a critical shortage area without loss of retirement benefits; permits school districts to hire retired members as full-time employees. Title: H.B. 519 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Permits a district to establish a sick leave bank for school employees in addition to teachers; provides for both teachers and employees to participate in the sharing of sick leave under specific conditions; adds sick leave bank benefits for castastrophic loss to personal or real property; requires certification of the need for a leave of absence by a physician only if the leave is due to illness, injury, impairment, or a physical or mental condition. Title: H.B. 373 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Requires school boards that provide a sick-leave program to certified employees to also provide a sick-leave program for noncertified employees of school boards; purchases service credit for each employee's unused sick leave not in excess of six months; allows unlimited accumulation of sick leave days. Title: H.B. 675 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NE Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Creates a 14-member task force that will study teacher salaries and report to the Legislature by Oct. 1. The task force will be directed to examine, among other things, the issue of whether the state should have greater control over Nebraska educational processes and facilities if the state provided substantial funding for teachers' salaries. Also authorizes the Nebraska Volunteer Services Commission to apply for funding from the Corporation for National Service. The funding will be used by the commission to provide incentives to college graduates to establish their teaching careers in Nebraska and to experienced Nebraska teachers to pursue graduate degrees. Title: L.B. 1399 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Provides for the state Retirement System, rather than the school boards, to develop the policies and procedures to administer the optional retirement plan which may be offered for certain employees of public school divisions, and to determine the contribution by the school boards to such retirement plan; provides that school boards which previously elected to provide an alternative retirement plan may elect to have the foregoing provisions apply to such plan. Title: H.B. 79 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Teachers receiving National Board Certification will receive a 10 percent increase in salary Title: H.B. 1187 Source: Georgia Department of Education KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Provides that for persons fired after 8/1/2000, who participate in State Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, State Police Retirement System, or Teachers' Retirement System, there shall be forfeiture of retirement benefits if convicted of a felony related to their employment. Title: H.B. 737 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Defines long-term substitute teachers; requires certain reporting on the use of long-term substitute teachers. Title: S.B. 172 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Provides for personal leave banks for school personnel who are caregivers; defines catastrophic illness or injury. Title: H.B. 4314 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OK Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Provides a $3,000 salary increase to state-paid certified personnel beginning with the 2000-2001 school year and increases the minimum teacher salary to reflect the increase. Title: H.B. 2653 Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma