GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 1209

 
 
Short Title:	Increase Substitute Teacher Pay.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Shubert;  Harrington, Morris, Davis, and Thompson.	
Referred to:	Education.	
April 12, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the pay of substitute teachers.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑12(8) reads as rewritten:
"(8)	Power to Make Provisions for Sick Leave and for Substitute Teachers. – The Board shall provide for sick leave with pay for all public school employees in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for necessary substitutes on account of sick leave and other teacher absences.
	The minimum pay for a substitute teacher  shall be seventy-five percent (75%) of the daily pay rate of an entry-level teacher with an "A" certificate.  In selecting substitute teachers, principals shall give preference to the most qualified candidates; however, substitute teachers who do not hold teaching certificates shall be paid the same amount as substitute teachers who hold teaching certificates.
	Local boards may use State funds allocated for substitute teachers to hire full-time substitute teachers.
	If a teacher assistant acts as a substitute teacher, the salary of the teacher assistant for the day shall be the same as the daily salary of an entry-level teacher with an "A" certificate."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of twenty‑two million three hundred seventy-six thousand eight hundred forty-eight dollars ($22,376,848) for the 2001-2002 fiscal year and the sum of twenty-two million three hundred seventy-six thousand eight hundred forty-eight dollars ($22,376,848) for the 2002-2003 fiscal year to increase the pay of substitute teachers as provided in Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.