Senate Bill No. 625
(By Senator Plymale)
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[Introduced February 19, 2010; referred to the Committee on
Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18A-4-5a of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to teacher differential pay
incentives.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18A-4-5a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-5a. County salary supplements for teachers.
County boards of education in fixing the salaries of teachers
shall use at least the state minimum salaries established under the
provisions of this article. The board may establish salary
schedules which shall be in excess of the state minimums fixed by
this article, such county schedules to be uniform throughout the
county as to the classification of training, experience, responsibility and other requirements.
Counties may fix higher salaries for teachers placed in
special instructional assignments,
such as placement in a
documented area of shortage and/or high-poverty, high-minority
areas, or for those assigned to or employed for duties other than
regular instructional duties, and for teachers of one-teacher
schools, and they may provide additional compensation for any
teacher assigned duties in addition to the teacher's regular
instructional duties wherein such noninstructional duties are not
a part of the scheduled hours of the regular school day.
Uniformity also shall apply to such additional salary increments or
compensation for all persons performing like assignments and duties
within the county:
Provided, That in establishing such local
salary schedules, no county shall reduce local funds allocated for
salaries in effect on January 1, 1990, and used in supplementing
the state minimum salaries as provided
for in this article, unless
forced to do so by defeat of a special levy, or a loss in assessed
values or events over which it has no control and for which the
county board has received approval from the state board prior to
making such reduction.
Counties may provide, in a uniform manner, benefits for
teachers which require an appropriation from local funds including,
but not limited to, dental, optical, health and income protection insurance, vacation time and retirement plans excluding the State
Teachers Retirement System. Nothing herein shall prohibit the
maintenance nor result in the reduction of any benefits in effect
on January 1, 1984, by any county board of education.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to give teachers a pay raise
if they are hired in a documented area of shortage and/or high-
poverty, high-minority area.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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