Bill Text: GA SB219 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; certificated personnel; provide placement on the state salary schedule
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-03 - Senate Read and Referred [SB219 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-SB219-Introduced.html
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Senate
Bill 219
By:
Senator Weber of the 40th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 20-2-212 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to salary schedules for certificated personnel under the "Quality Basic
Education Act," so as to provide for placement on the state salary schedule for
an educator who has a leadership degree but is not in a leadership position; to
provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 20-2-212 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to salary
schedules for certificated personnel under the "Quality Basic Education Act," is
amended by revising subsection (a) as follows:
"(a)
The State Board of Education shall establish a schedule of minimum salaries for
services rendered which shall be on a ten-month basis and which shall be paid by
local units of administration to the various classifications of professional
personnel required to be certificated by the Professional Standards Commission.
The minimum salary schedule shall provide a minimum salary base for each
classification of professional personnel required to be certificated; shall
provide for increment increases above the minimum salary base of each
classification based upon individual experience and length of satisfactory
service; and shall include such other uniformly applicable factors as the state
board may find relevant to the establishment of such a schedule. The minimum
salary base for certificated professional personnel with bachelor's degrees and
no experience, when annualized from a ten-month basis to a 12 month basis, shall
be comparable to the beginning salaries of the recent graduates of the
University System of Georgia holding bachelor's degrees and entering positions,
excluding professional educator teaching positions, in Georgia having
educational entry requirements comparable to the requirements for entry into
Georgia public school teaching. The placement of teachers on the salary
schedule shall be based on certificate level and years of creditable experience,
except that a teacher shall not receive credit for any year of experience in
which the teacher received an unsatisfactory performance evaluation.
For purposes
of this subsection, an educator's placement on the salary schedule shall not be
based on a leadership degree, which shall mean a degree earned in conjunction
with completion of an educator leadership preparation program approved by the
Professional Standards Commission, if the degree was earned on or after July 1,
2010, unless the educator is employed in a leadership position as defined by the
State Board of Education, but shall be placed on the salary schedule position
attributable to the educator but for the leadership degree; provided, however,
that this shall 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. The General Assembly shall
annually appropriate funds to implement a salary schedule for certificated
professional personnel. For each state fiscal year, the state board shall adopt
the salary schedule for which funding has been appropriated by the General
Assembly. A local unit of administration shall not pay to any full-time
certificated professional employee a salary less than that prescribed by the
schedule of minimum salaries, except as required by this Code section; nor shall
a local unit of administration pay to any part-time certificated professional
employee less than a pro rata portion of the respective salary prescribed by the
schedule of minimum salaries, except as required by this Code
section."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.