05 LC 28
2319
House
Bill 725
By:
Representatives Cox of the
102nd,
Mitchell of the
88th,
Miller of the
106th,
Floyd of the
99th,
Marin of the
96th,
and others
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend an Act providing for the election of the Board of Education of Gwinnett
County, approved April 7, 1972 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 4058), as
amended, particularly by an Act approved April 9, 1993
(Ga. L. 1993, p. 5260), so as to provide for the compensation of
members of the board of education; to provide for future adjustments of
compensation; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to
repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
An
Act providing for the election of the Board of Education of Gwinnett County,
approved April 7, 1972 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 4058), as amended,
particularly by an Act approved April 9, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993,
p. 5260), is amended by striking Section 2 and inserting in lieu thereof a
new Section 2 to read as follows:
"SECTION
2.
(a)
Effective January 1, 2006, each member of the Board of Education of Gwinnett
County shall receive a salary equal in amount to the salary received by members
of the General Assembly and a daily expense allowance for each day of service on
behalf of the Board of Education equal to the daily expense allowance received
by members of the General Assembly.
(b)
On and after January 1, 2006, the Gwinnett County Board of Education is
authorized to fix the salary and compensation of the members of the Gwinnett
County Board of Education subject to the following conditions:
(1)
Any increase in salary or compensation for members of the Gwinnett County Board
of Education shall not be effective until the first day of January of the year
following the next general election held after the date on which the action to
increase the compensation was taken;
(2)
The Gwinnett County Board of Education shall take no action to increase the
salary or compensation of the members of the board until notice of intent to
take such action and the fiscal impact of such action has been published in a
newspaper designated as the legal organ for the county at least once a week for
three consecutive weeks immediately preceding the meeting at which the action is
taken; and
(3)
Such action shall not be taken during the period of time beginning with the date
that candidates for election as members of the Gwinnett County Board of
Education may first qualify as such candidates and ending with the first day of
January following the date of qualification.
This
subsection shall not affect the power of the General Assembly at any time to
increase or decrease any or all of such compensation or to withdraw the
authority otherwise granted under this subsection.
(c)
In addition, each member of the board of education shall receive an expense
allowance, not to exceed $7,000.00 per year, for documented actual and necessary
expenses incurred in the performance of the
membeŕs
duties within the county and reimbursement for documented actual and necessary
expenses incurred in the performance of the
membeŕs
duties outside the county in such amount as shall be authorized by a majority
vote of the board of education. Records of such documentation shall be kept on
file at the office of the board of education for such reasonable period of time
as shall be established by the board of
education."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on January 1, 2006.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.