Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:869 Primary Sponsor:Leventis Committee Number:04 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:School district salary supplements Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Education Computer Document Number:DKA/4579AL.93 Introduced Date:19940111 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940111 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Leventis Reese Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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869 Senate 19940111 Introduced, read first time, 04
referred to Committee
869 Senate 19931011 Prefiled, referred to 04
Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 59-20-50, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO SCHOOL TEACHERS' AND ADMINISTRATORS' SALARIES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SALARY SUPPLEMENTS MAY BE REDUCED BUT THE SALARY MUST NOT BE REDUCED BELOW THE MINIMUM TEACHER SALARY SCHEDULE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 59-20-50(4)(b) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Section 28, Part II, Act 171 of 1991, is further amended to read:
"(b) The state minimum salary schedule must be based on the state minimum salary schedule index in effect as of July 1, 1984. In fiscal year 1985, the 1.000 figure in the index is $14,172. (This figure is based on a 10.27% percent increase pursuant to the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984.) Beginning with fiscal year 1986, the 1.000 figure in the index must be adjusted on a schedule to stay at the southeastern average as projected by the Division of Research and Statistical Services and provided to the Budget and Control Board and General Assembly during their deliberations on the annual appropriations bill. The southeastern average teacher salary is the average of the average teachers' salaries of the southeastern states. In projecting the southeastern average, the division shall include in the South Carolina base teacher salary all local teacher supplements and all incentive pay. Under this schedule, school districts are required to maintain local salary supplements per teacher no less than their 1983-84 level. A school district may reduce the local salary supplements, but salaries must not be reduced below the minimum teacher salary established by the state schedule for the fiscal year. In fiscal year 1986 and thereafter teacher pay raises through adjustments in the state's minimum salary schedule may be provided only to teachers who demonstrate minimum knowledge proficiency by meeting one of the following criteria:
(1) holding a valid professional certificate;
(2) having a score of 425 or greater on the Commons Examination of the National Teachers Examinations;
(3) meeting the minimum qualifying score on the appropriate area teaching examination; or
(4) meeting the minimum standards on the basic skills examinations as prescribed by the State Board of Education provided in Section 59-26-20.
Any fees applicable to the required examinations must be paid by the examinee. The criteria listed in subitems (1) through (4) do not have to be demonstrated by teachers having twenty-five years or more of teaching service as of the effective date of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 in order for their pay raises to be provided."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.