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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.1103 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20000202 Primary Sponsor:Leatherman All Sponsors:Leatherman, Peeler, Ryberg, Mescher, Richardson, Courtney, McConnell, Courson, Ravenel, Giese, Hayes, Grooms, Waldrep, Bauer and Branton Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\gjk\20903sd00.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Education Committee 04 SED Subject:Teacher salary schedule, minimum required to be adjusted and increased; School Districts History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 20000202 Introduced, read first time, 04 SED referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 59-20-50, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS AND THE STATE'S MINIMUM TEACHER SALARY SCHEDULE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT BEGINNING WITH FISCAL YEAR 2000-2001, THE AVERAGE COMPENSATION FOR TEACHERS AS DETERMINED THROUGH ADJUSTMENTS IN THE STATE'S MINIMUM SALARY SCHEDULE MUST BE AT LEAST THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.
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 Part II, Section 15H, Act 497 of 1994, 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% 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 prior fiscal level. 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.
Beginning with fiscal year 2000-2001, the average compensation for teachers with a bachelor's degree, bachelor's plus eighteen hours, master's degree, master's degree plus thirty hours, and a doctorate degree as a group and as determined through adjustments in the state's minimum salary schedule must be at least thirty-eight thousand dollars. This thirty-eight thousand dollar figure must be adjusted thereafter beginning with fiscal year 2001-2002 to reflect any percentage increase in the average teacher salaries of the southeastern states from the previous year."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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