Bill Text: MS HB71 | 2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Payment of teacher salaries; standard contract shall fix monthly installment.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2014-02-10 - Approved by Governor [HB71 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2014-HB71-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2014 Regular Session
To: Education
By: Representatives Moore, Mayo, Dixon
House Bill 71
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-9-39, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THE STANDARD TEACHER CONTRACT PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL PROVIDE THAT LICENSED EMPLOYEES SHALL EARN A SALARY PAYABLE IN EQUAL INSTALLMENTS BEGINNING IN THE FIRST MONTH OF EMPLOYMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 37-9-39, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-9-39. (1) Salary or wages paid to any employee of any school shall be paid on a basis as determined by the local school board of each school district consistent with the provisions of Section 37-157-103(1), except for December, when salaries or wages shall be paid by the last working day. Salaries or wages shall be paid at a minimum on a monthly basis. The standard contract for school district employees prescribed by the State Board of Education shall provide that school district employees shall earn a salary payable in equal monthly installments beginning in the first month of employment, regardless of the number of days worked in any particular month by the employee. Any employee failing to complete the contractual obligation of service, and who receives payment in excess of the monthly installment for the period which such employee ceases employment with the school district, shall become liable immediately to the school board of the employing district for the sum of all amounts received in payment less the corresponding amount of any compensation paid for which service has been rendered, plus interest accruing at the current Stafford Loan rate at the time the person discontinues his or her service.
(2) Any school
employee whose employment ends during a school term, regardless of the
reason(s) the employment ended, shall be paid salary or wages only for that
portion of the school term that employee actually worked. Nothing in this * * *
subsection (2)
shall be construed to entitle any employee to payment of salary or wages when
no work has been performed.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
