Signed by Governor Kay Ivey

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that increases minimum pay for public education employees.

Highlights:

• Requires the State Budget Officer to allocate to the appropriate boards and department funds for the purposes of disbursing to public school employees (Sec. 1, Pgs. 2 & 3).

• Requires each certified K-12 public school employee at every city and county public school system and teachers at the Department of Youth Services School District to receive a 4% salary increase beginning with the fiscal year starting October 1, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter (Sec. 1, Pg. 3).

• Requires all certified employees, including the Adult Education and Science in Motion employees, to be guaranteed the 4% pay increase (Sec. 1, Pg. 4).

• Increases the salaries of public education support workers and bus drivers by 4% (Sec. 1, Pg. 5).

• Specifies that the pay increase applies to employees of the Alabama institute of the Deaf and Blind (Sec. 1, Pg. 6).

• Establishes the revised salary schedules to include the 4% salary increase for all certified employees of public schools, 2-year post-secondary schools, and all other above listed employees (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that public K-12 school employees shall receive a pro-rata salary increase for any time spent working in excess of the standard 187 days or the hourly equivalent (Sec. 1, Pg. 8).

• Requires cost-of-living adjustments to the salaries of teachers to be exclusive of the salary increases specified in this act (Sec. 1, Pg. 8).

• Authorizes local boards of education to exclude part-time employees of community education or school-sponsored child care or child enrichment programs from the salary increase of this act (Sec. 1, Pg. 9).

• Specifies that the pay increase described in this act does not apply to school system superintendents (Sec. 1, Pg. 9).

• Specifies that this act takes effect immediately upon passage and approval (Sec. 4, Pg. 10).

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