Senate Bill No. 412

(By Senators Redd, Wooton, Prezioso, Hunter, Edgell,

Mitchell, Bowman, Kessler, Unger, Chafin, Bailey, Plymale,

Sharpe, Helmick, Minard, Fanning, Facemyer, Snyder,

Love, Sprouse, McCabe, Caldwell, McKenzie, Deem, Rowe, Minear, Anderson, Oliverio, Ross, Jackson and Tomblin, Mr. President)


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[Introduced January 25, 2002; referred to the Committee

on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article four, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to teachers' salaries; increasing the minimum salary paid to teachers each year for three years; and, for three years, increasing the experience steps in the state minimum salary schedules from nineteen years to thirty-five years.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article four, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-2. State Minimum salaries for teachers.
(a) Each teacher shall receive the amount prescribed in the "state minimum salary schedule I" as set forth in this section, specific additional amounts prescribed in this section or article, and any county supplement in effect in a county pursuant to section five-a of this article during the contract year: Provided, That beginning on the first day of July, the second quarter of the teacher's employment term in the school year two thousand one two and continuing through the thirtieth day of June, two thousand two three, and thereafter, each teacher shall receive the amount prescribed in "state minimum salary schedule II" as set forth in this section, specific additional amounts prescribed in this section or article, and any county supplement in effect in a county pursuant to section five-a of this article during the contract year. Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand three and continuing through the thirtieth day of June, two thousand four, each teacher shall receive the minimum amount prescribed in "state minimum salary schedule III" as set forth in this section, specific additional amounts prescribed in this section or article, and any county salary supplement in effect in a county pursuant to section five-a of this article during the contract year. Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand four, and thereafter, each teacher shall receive the amount prescribed in "state minimum salary schedule IV" as set forth in this section, specific additional amounts prescribed in this section or article, and any county salary supplement in effect in a county pursuant to section five-a of this article during each contract year.
STATE MINIMUM SALARY SCHEDULE I
1

Yrs

Exp
2

4th

Class
3

3rd

Class
 		4
2nd
Class 		5

A.B. 		6
A.B.
+15 		7

M.A. 		8
M.A.
+15 		9
M.A.
+30 		10
M.A.
+45 		11

 Doctorate
0 20,084 20,721 20,976 22,186 22,921 24,629 25,364 26,099 26,834 27,834
1 20,365 21,002 21,257 22,651 23,386 25,094 25,829 26,564 27,299 28,299
2 20,646 21,284 21,539 23,116 23,851 25,559 26,294 27,029 27,764 28,764
3 20,928 21,565 21,820 23,581 24,316 26,024 26,759 27,494 28,229 29,229
4 21,445 22,082 22,338 24,282 25,017 26,725 27,460 28,195 28,930 29,930
5 21,726 22,364 22,619 24,747 25,482 27,190 27,925 28,660 29,395 30,395
6 22,008 22,645 22,900 25,212 25,947 27,655 28,390 29,125 29,860 30,860
7 22,008 22,926 23,182 25,677 26,412 28,120 28,855 29,590 30,325 31,325
8 22,008 23,208 23,463 26,142 26,877 28,585 29,320 30,055 30,790 31,790
9 22,008   23,744 26,607 27,342 29,050 29,785 30,520 31,255 32,255
10 22,008   24,025 27,073 27,808 29,516 30,251 30,986 31,721 32,721
11 22,008     27,538 28,273 29,981 30,716 31,451 32,186 33,186
12 22,008     28,003 28,738 30,446 31,181 31,916 32,651 33,651
13 22,008     28,468 29,203 30,911 31,646 32,381 33,116 34,116
14 22,008         31,376 32,111 32,846 33,581 34,581
15 22,008         31,841 32,576 33,311 34,046 35,046
16 22,008         32,306 33,041 33,776 34,511 35,511
17 22,008             34,241 34,976 35,976
18 22,008             34,706 35,441 36,441
19 22,008             35,171 35,906 36,906