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


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State Status/Date Level Summary
VATo governor 02/2013P-12Teacher Performance Pay
H.B. 2083/S.B. 1185
Establishes the Strategic Compensation Grant Initiative and Fund. Provides that local school divisions may submit proposals to Board of Educ...

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GASigned into law 04/2012P-12Repealing Various Teacher and Leader Provisions
H.B. 706 - Repealing Various Teacher and Leader Provisions
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 addi...

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LASigned into law 04/2012P-12Teacher and Administrator Compensation
H.B. 974
Addresses salary schedules for teachers and all school employees. Salary schedules for teachers, administrators and other certified staff wi...

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UTSigned into law 03/2012P-12Employee Performance Compensation
S.B. 64 - Employee Performance Compensation
Directs the state board to adopt rules requiring each district's employee compensation system to be aligned with its annual evaluation syste...

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IDSigned into law 03/2012P-12Teacher Compensation- Pay for Performance
S.B. 1329
Amends the provisions of Students Come First that were contained in S 1110 (2011)
to clarify that:
1.) State-paid employee benefit apportion...

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UTSigned into law 03/2012P-12Repeal of Provision re: New Teacher Bonus and Performance-Based Compensation Plans
H.B. 156 - Repeal of Provision re: New Teacher Bonus and Performance-Based Compensation Plans
Removes from the list of nonlapsing funds and accounts certain funds appropriated from the Uniform School Fund to the state board of educati...

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SDSigned into law 03/2012P-12Teacher Incentive Program
H.B. 1234
Creates the math and science teacher incentive program for the purpose of providing rewards ($2500) to attract certified teachers who teach ...

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INSigned into law 08/2011P-12Salary Increases
S.B. 1 - Salary Increases
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 fol...

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MISigned into law 07/2011P-12Certain Subjects Excluded From Collective Bargaining Agreement
H.B. 4628
From Legislative Staff Summary - Amends the public employment relations Act to prohibit decisions about the following subjects from being in...

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OHSigned into law 06/2011P-12Pay for Performance for RTTT Districts/Schools
H.B. 153 - Pay for Performance for RTTT Districts/Schools
Requires any local board or community school or STEM school receiving federal Race to the Top grant monies to pay teachers based on performa...

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OHSigned into law 04/2011P-12Teacher, Principal, Superintendent and Other Employee Compensation
S.B. 5 - Compensation sections
--Public employee pay: Does away with salary schedules and replaces with salary "ranges." Requires performance-based pay for teachers and no...

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UTSigned into law 03/2011P-12Teacher Salary Supplement Program
H.B. 110
Permits a teacher to participate in the teacher salary supplement program if a secondary-level math or grade 7-8 science teacher's bachelor'...

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FLSigned into law 03/2011P-12Performance Salary Schedule
S.B. 736 - Performance Salary Schedule
Repeals existing language related to local salary schedules. Directs local boards to establish a grandfathered salary schedule for all emplo...

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IDSigned into law 03/2011P-12Pay for Performance: Part 3 or 3
S.B. 1110
Part 3 of Students Come First legislation. Adds to existing law relating to education to provide provisions relating to pay for performance....

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OKSigned into law 10/2010P-12Incentive Pay for Teachers
S.B. 2033
Increases maximum allowable incentive pay amount; authorizes implementation of certain incentive pay plans; provides requirements and proce...

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FLIssued 06/2010P-12Florida's Task Force on Excellent Teaching
E.O. 10-126
Establishes Florida's Task Force on Excellent Teaching. Directs the task force to:
(1) Review performance appraisal systems and teacher cer...

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NESigned into law 04/2010P-12Revenue Source for Teacher Performance Pay
L.B. 1014
From the Fiscal Note: Provides for the rental income from solar and wind leases on school lands to be used for teacher performance pay begin...

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OHSigned into law 07/2009P-12School Funding Advisory Council
H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292
Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereaf...

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TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Educator Excellence Awards Program
H.B. 709
Adds national board-certified teachers as a group of educators eligible to be awarded stipends for improved student achievement through the ...

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MESigned into law 06/2009P-12Performance-based Pay Systems
S.B. 458
Requires the Department of Education to review models for performance-based pay and bonuses for teachers, principals and superintendents and...

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MOSigned into law 06/2009P-12Teacher Choice Compensation Package
S.B. 291 - Performance-based Salary Stipends
Creates the "Teacher Choice Compensation Package" for the St. Louis City School District to permit performance-based salary stipends, upon t...

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TNSigned into law 06/2009P-12Bonuses and Performance Compensation Fall Outside Negotiations
S.B. 2002
Provides that employee bonuses and performance compensation are not conditions of employment that the board of education and professional em...

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GASigned into law 04/2009P-12Financial Incentives to Math and Science Teachers
H.B. 280
Provides that effective July 2010, and until there is no longer a shortage of math and science teachers, a secondary school teacher licensed...

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IASigned into law 04/2009P-12Single Salary System
S.B. 445
Amends existing policy and adds new section (284.3) on single salary system. S.F. 445 incorporates Phase II (general salary increases) of th...

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UTSigned into law 03/2009P-12Elementary School Performance-based Compensation Pilot Program
H.B. 328
Establishes the Performance-based Compensation Pilot Program. Directs the state board of education to solicit and award grants on a competit...

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COSigned into law 02/2009P-12Alternative Teacher Compensation
S.B. 213
Allows the general assembly to determine annually whether to appropriate moneys for the alternative teacher compensation plan grant program;...

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COAdopted 02/2009P-12Alternative Teacher Compensation Grant
1 CCR 301-80
Addresses an alternative teacher compensation plan grant program to be administered through the Department of Education and directs that fun...

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ILSigned into law 10/2008P-12Teaching Excellence Program and P-20 Council Membership
S.B. 2687
Revises the Teaching Excellence Program. Provides an annual payment of $3,000 to a teacher or counselor who holds both a Master Certificate ...

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ORRejected by voters 08/2008P-12Teaching Quality Requirements & Pay
Ballot Measure 60
Enacts the Kids First Act; requires that pay raises for public school teachers shall be based upon each teacher's classroom performance and ...

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FLSigned into law 06/2008P-12Education Program Funding
H.B. 5083
Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation unde...

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AZSigned into law 06/2008P-12Teacher Performance Pay
H.B. 2211
Specifies that each fiscal year the legislature appropriates suffficient monies for Teacher Performance Pay Program into the Classroom Site ...

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SCSigned into law 06/2008P-12Teacher and Principal Specialists
H.B. 4662 -- Amends Multiple Provisions
For schools or districts designated as "at risk" (changed from "unsatisfactory), teacher specialists may be assigned to work across grade le...

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IASigned into law 05/2008P-12Appropriations: Teacher Quality-Related Section
H.B. 2679
Governor and General Assembly by January 15, 2009. (Page 10, Line 20)
DIVISION IV – STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER
QUALITY PROGRAM
• Requir...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Stipends for Special Educators for Additional Days of Work
S.B. 2 - Section 21
Directs the legislature, subject to future budget constraints, to annually appropriate money for stipends to special educators for additiona...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Teacher Salary Supplement Program
S.B. 2 - Sections 19 and 20
Defines "qualifying educational background." Beginning in fiscal year 2008-2009, provides an annual salary supplement of $4,100 for a full-t...

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UTSigned into law 03/2008P-12Signing Bonuses and One-Time Performance Based Bonuses
S.B. 281
Provides funds for one-time $1,000 signing bonuses for new educators (including teachers returning to education after one or more years of i...

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NCSigned into law 08/2007P-12Pilot Alternative Teacher Salary Plans
H.B. 966
Requires the State Board of Education to establish a pilot program authorizing the implementation of alternative teacher salary plans to ena...

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HISigned into law 06/2007P-12Additional Bonuses for National Board-Certified Teachers
H.B. 24
Provides an additional $5,000 bonus per year for each national board-certified teacher who teaches at:
         (A)  A school that is in res...

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TNSigned into law 06/2007P-12School Improvement Plans
H.B. 472
During the first year a system or school is on probation, the commissioner of education shall: (A) Have the authority to approve a school sy...

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IASigned into law 05/2007P-12Student Achievement/Teacher Quality program
S.F. 277 - funding provisions
Allocates $173,943,894 -- $69,600,000 above FY07. Includes $20 million for professional development; $250,000 for new administrator mentorin...

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IASigned into law 04/2007P-12Team-Based Variable Pay
S.F. 277 (Section 12)
Removes all references to Team-based Variable Pay Pilots. Strikes section 284.1, subsection 4, which establishes as one of the elements of t...

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ARSigned into law 04/2007P-12Pilot incentive pay plan
H.B. 2614
Creates a pilot program to restructure the teacher professional pay system to be known as the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program (R...

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FLSigned into law 04/2007P-12Merit Pay Program for Teachers
S.B. 1226
Establishes the Merit Award program for instructional personnel and school-based administrators; requires a school district board to adopt t...

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ILSigned into law 06/2006P-12Teaching Excellence Program
H.B. 4308
Requires the state board of education's annual budget to set out by separate line item the appropriation for the Teaching Excellence Program...

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LASigned into law 06/2006P-12Salary Adjustment for NBPTS-Certified Teachers
H.B. 175
Extends the deadline from 2007 to 2013 for teachers to have obtained initial certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching...

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IASigned into law 06/2006P-12Merit-Based Teacher Pay
H.B. 2792 - Section 24 - 27
Rewrites section 284.11 (former "Pilot program for team-based variable pay for student achievement"). New section 284.11 encourages school ...

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IAIssued 06/2006P-12Pay-for-Performance Program and Study
E.O. 48
Directs the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce to propose a design for a pay-for-performance program and conduct a study of the design to me...

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FLSigned into law 05/2006P-12Differentiated Pay Scale for Teachers
H.B. 7087 (Section 55)
Beginning with the 2007-2008 academic year, each district school board must adopt a salary schedule with differentiated pay for both instruc...

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SDSigned into law 03/2006P-12Stipends for Nationally Certified Teachers
S.B. 83
Increases the length of time for which nationally certified teachers may receive stipends to be paid upon receipt of documentation of certif...

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OHto governor 12/2005P-12Aligned Teacher Preparation Programs
H.B. 107
Requires the state board to adopt standards that require the curricula of teacher preparation programs to be aligned with the state academic...

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TXIssued 11/2005P-12Performance Incentives
Executive Order RP51
Requires the Commissioner of Education to establish a performance-based pay grant program for educators. The program is to use federal funds...

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AZSigned into law 05/2005P-12Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force
S.B. 1074
Establishes the Arizona Performance Based Compensation System Task Force within the state board of education. By Februrary 2006 and annually...

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ARSigned into law 04/2005P-12Teacher Resource Programs
H.B. 1982
Renames the Teacher and Administrator Enhancement and Retraining Grant Program the Teacher Opportunity Program. Eliminates requirement that ...

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MD(S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005Postsec.Higher Education - Scholarships - Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
H.B. 1235
Authorizing an area of critical shortage to include speech language pathology or audiology services under the Sharon Christa McAuliffe Memor...

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DERule Adoption 01/2005P-12Knowledge, Skills and Responsibility Supplements
14 DAC 1501, 1.0 - 12.0
Amends regulation relating to knowledge, skills and responsibility based supplements for educators. Clarifies the effective date of salary s...

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MSSigned into law 04/2004P-12State Employer-Assisted Housing Program
H.B. 662
Extends the repeal of provisions that establish the State Employer- Assisted Housing Teacher Program.

Extends the repealer on the Mississip...

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ARSigned into law 01/2004P-12Public School Funding Act of 2003
S.B. 42
Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public scho...

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DERule Adoption 01/2004P-12Professional Growth Salary Increments
14 DAC 1507
Provides procedures for implementation of movement by educators on the salary schedule set forth in 14 Del.C., Section 1305. Addresses movem...

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GASigned into law 06/2003P-12Teacher Compensation and Contracts
S.B. 193
Provides for an annual increase in state pay for certain teachers; individuals who first became teachers on or after July 1, 2000, acquire r...

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IASigned into law 05/2003P-12Team-Based Variable Pay Pilot Program
H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Adds that another goal of statewide team-based variable pay pilot program is to compare student achievement gains in participating districts...

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IASigned into law 05/2003P-12Performance Pay Component of Iowa Educational Excellence Program
H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Eliminates phase in the Iowa educational excellence program that pertains to enhancement of the quality and effectiveness of teachers throug...

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IASigned into law 05/2003P-12Teacher Performance Pay (Phase III) Program
H.B. 549 (omnibus bill)
Repeals sections of code relating to Phase III program, which establishes system of teacher performance pay. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/cg...

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ARSigned into law 04/2003P-12Annual for Teachers with National Board Certification
H.B. 2903
Increases the annual bonus of teachers obtaining national board for professional teaching standards certification. http://www.arkleg.state.a...

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NVSigned into law 06/2001P-12Assessments, National Board Certification, Professional Development
S.B. 3A
Relates to achievement and proficiency examinations administered in public schools; revises provisions governing the increase of salary for ...

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SDSigned into law 02/2001P-12Additional compensation for teachers that teach over Digital Dakota Network
H.B. 1291
Any teacher that teaches a course over the Digital Dakota Network shall receive additional compensation for each course and from each school...

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ORUnofficially rejected by voters 11/2000P-12Performance Pay, Seniority
V. 19; (NEW BILL)
(Initiative No. 29 Measure 95) Amends the Oregon Constitution regarding performance pay for teachers; provides that student learning determi...

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FLSigned into law 06/2000P-12Florida's Accountability System
H.B. 63
Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualificati...

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DESigned into law 05/2000P-12Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act
S.B. 260
Creates the Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act. Beginning in 2002, at least 20% of educator's performance evaluation w...

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GASigned into law 03/2000P-12Omnibus Bill - Teacher Compensation and National Board Certification
H.B. 1187
Teachers receiving National Board Certification will receive a 10 percent increase in salary...

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KYSigned into law 03/2000P-12Teacher Quality
H.B. 25
Establishes the intent of the General Assembly to reach a goal that there be at least one national board certified teacher in every public s...

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TNSigned into law 03/2000P-12Apprentice Teachers
S.B. 2182
Specifies the teacher employed as probationary teacher for 1 year and as an apprentice teacher for 2 years will be considered as having met ...

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