Florida HB 1187: Public School Personnel Compensation

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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to public school personnel 2
compensation; amending s. 1012.22, F.S.; providing 3
that cost-of-living adjustments are for certain school 4
district employees; providing that such adjustments do 5
not preclude district school boards from providing 6
other adjustments; removing a limitation on such 7
adjustments; revising the requirement for the use of 8
advanced degrees when setting salary schedules for 9
instructional personnel and school administrators; 10
removing certain limitations for salary adjustments 11
under the performance salary schedule; providing an 12
effective date. 13
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 15
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Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 17
1012.22, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 18
1012.22 Public school personnel; powers and duties of the 19
district school board.—The district school board shall: 20
(1) Designate positions to be filled, prescribe 21
qualifications for those positions, and provide for the 22
appointment, compensation, promotion, suspension, and dismissal 23
of employees as follows, subject to the requirements of this 24
chapter: 25

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(c) Compensation and salary schedules.— 26
1. Definitions.—As used in this paragraph: 27
a. "Adjustment" means an addition to the base salary 28
schedule that is not a bonus and becomes part of the employee's 29
permanent base salary and shall be considered compensation under 30
s. 121.021(22). 31
b. "Grandfathered salary schedule" means the salary 32
schedule or schedules adopted by a district school board before 33
July 1, 2014, pursuant to subparagraph 4. 34
c. "Instructional personnel" means instructional personnel 35
as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a)-(d), excluding substitute 36
teachers. 37
d. "Performance salary schedule" means the salary schedule 38
or schedules adopted by a district school board pursuant to 39
subparagraph 5. 40
e. "Salary schedule" means the schedule or schedules used 41
to provide the base salary for district school board personnel. 42
f. "School administrator" means a school administrator as 43
defined in s. 1012.01(3)(c). 44
g. "Supplement" means an annual addition to the base 45
salary for the term of the negotiated supplement as long as the 46
employee continues his or her employment for the purpose of the 47
supplement. A supplement does not become part of the employee's 48
continuing base salary but shall be considered compensation 49
under s. 121.021(22). 50

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2. Cost-of-living adjustment.—A district school board may 51
provide a cost-of-living salary adjustment to school district 52
employees, including, but not limited to, instructional 53
personnel as defined in s. 1012.01(2), prekindergarten 54
instructors, noninstructional personnel, and school 55
administrators as defined in s. 1012.01(3)(c), if the 56
adjustment: 57
a. does not discriminate among comparable classes of 58
employees based upon the salary schedule under which they are 59
compensated. A cost-of-living adjustment does not preclude a 60
district school board from providing other salary adjustments 61
from additional funding sources, including categorical funding 62
and the classroom teacher and other instructional personnel 63
salary increase under s. 1011.62 and supplemental funding 64
sources, including grants. 65
b. Does not exceed 50 percent of the annual adjustment 66
provided to instructional personnel rated as effective. 67
3. Advanced degrees.—A district school board may use 68
advanced degrees in setting a salary schedule for instructional 69
personnel or school administrators if the advanced degree is 70
held in the individual's area of certification, a field related 71
to his or her teaching assignment, or a related field of study. 72
For purposes of the salary schedule, an advanced degree may 73
include a master's degree or higher that is in the area of 74
certification or teaching assignment, or an advanced degree in 75

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another field with a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours 76
related to the individual's area of certification or teaching 77
assignment. 78
4. Grandfathered salary schedule.— 79
a. The district school board shall adopt a salary schedule 80
or salary schedules to be used as the basis for paying all 81
school employees hired before July 1, 2014. Instructional 82
personnel on a