A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO require the hourly rate of the minimum salary for NONCERTIFIED PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES to be at least FIFTEEN DOLLARS per hour.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The hourly rate of the minimum salary for all noncertified public school employees shall be at least fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour. The State Board of Education shall increase the minimum of all salary grades and ranges it maintains for noncertified public school employees, as necessary, to achieve a minimum hourly rate of at least fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour.
SECTION 1.(b)  Funds provided to local school administrative units pursuant to this act may be used to supplement the salaries of noncertified public school employees whose salaries are supported from non‑State funds to meet the minimum hourly rate of at least fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour required by subsection (a) of this section. These funds shall not be used to supplant State or non‑State funds already provided for salaries of noncertified public school employees.
SECTION 2.(a)  Appropriation. – There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of one hundred ten million dollars ($110,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 2.(b)  State Budget Act Applies. – The provisions of the State Budget Act, Chapter 143C of the General Statutes, are reenacted and shall remain in full force and effect and are incorporated in this act by reference.
SECTION 2.(c)  Additional Limitations and Directions. – Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session of the General Assembly expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, shall remain in effect.
SECTION 2.(d)  Applicability of House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session. – If House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, and any provision of that act or a provision of the Committee Report described in Section 42.2 of that act conflicts with this act, this act shall control.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.