06 LC
25 4204
House
Bill 1226
By:
Representatives England of the
108th,
Coleman of the
97th,
McCall of the
30th,
Roberts of the
154th,
Black of the
174th,
and others
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 professional educators in public schools, so as to
provide for minimum salaries for agricultural education teachers based on 12
monthś
service; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; 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 professional educators in public schools, is amended by striking
subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"(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, except
that minimum salaries for agricultural education teachers shall be for services
rendered on a 12 month basis. Such minimum
salaries 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
bacheloŕs
degrees and no experience,
when
which for
those certificated professional personnel employed on a ten-month basis shall
be 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
bacheloŕs
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. 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.
This
Act shall become effective January 1, 2007, and shall apply to contracts entered
into on or after that date.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.