Florida SB 1720: Public School Personnel Compensation

Bill Text

1720 
Public School Personnel Compensation 
2026-01-09T11:22:50Z 
Providing that employees with direct student contact may receive cost-of-living salary adjustments; deleting a limitation on cost-of-living salary adjustments; revising the requirement for the use of advanced degrees when setting salary schedules for instructional personnel and school administrators, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1720 

 By Senator Calatayud 

 38-01245-26 20261720__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to public school personnel 
 3 compensation; amending s. 1012.22, F.S.; providing 
 4 that employees with direct student contact may receive 
 5 cost-of-living salary adjustments; providing that such 
 6 adjustments do not preclude district school boards 
 7 from providing certain other salary adjustments; 
 8 deleting a limitation on cost-of-living salary 
 9 adjustments; revising the requirement for the use of 
 10 advanced degrees when setting salary schedules for 
 11 instructional personnel and school administrators; 
 12 deleting certain limitations for salary adjustments 
 13 under the performance salary schedule; providing an 
 14 effective date. 
 15 
 16 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 17 
 18 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 
 19 1012.22, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 20 1012.22 Public school personnel; powers and duties of the 
 21 district school board.—The district school board shall: 
 22 (1) Designate positions to be filled, prescribe 
 23 qualifications for those positions, and provide for the 
 24 appointment, compensation, promotion, suspension, and dismissal 
 25 of employees as follows, subject to the requirements of this 
 26 chapter: 
 27 (c) Compensation and salary schedules.— 
 28 1. Definitions.—As used in this paragraph: 
 29 a. “Adjustment” means an addition to the base salary 
 30 schedule that is not a bonus and becomes part of the employee’s 
 31 permanent base salary and shall be considered compensation under 
 32 s. 121.021(22). 
 33 b. “Grandfathered salary schedule” means the salary 
 34 schedule or schedules adopted by a district school board before 
 35 July 1, 2014, pursuant to subparagraph 4. 
 36 c. “Instructional personnel” means instructional personnel 
 37 as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a)-(d), excluding substitute 
 38 teachers. 
 39 d. “Performance salary schedule” means the salary schedule 
 40 or schedules adopted by a district school board pursuant to 
 41 subparagraph 5. 
 42 e. “Salary schedule” means the schedule or schedules used 
 43 to provide the base salary for district school board personnel. 
 44 f. “School administrator” means a school administrator as 
 45 defined in s. 1012.01(3)(c). 
 46 g. “Supplement” means an annual addition to the base salary 
 47 for the term of the negotiated supplement as long as the 
 48 employee continues his or her employment for the purpose of the 
 49 supplement. A supplement does not become part of the employee’s 
 50 continuing base salary but shall be considered compensation 
 51 under s. 121.021(22). 
 52 2. Cost-of-living adjustment.—A district school board may 
 53 provide a cost-of-living salary adjustment to employees with 
 54 direct student contact, including, but not limited to, 
 55 instructional personnel as defined in s. 1012.01(2), 
 56 noninstructional personnel, and school administrators as defined 
 57 in s. 1012.01(3)(c), if the adjustment: 
 58 a. does not discriminate among comparable classes of 
 59 employees based upon the salary schedule under which they are 
 60 compensated. A cost-of-living adjustment does not preclude a 
 61 district school board from providing other salary adjustments 
 62 from additional funding sources, including categorical funding 
 63 and the classroom teacher and other instructional personnel 
 64 salary increase under s. 1011.62(14) and supplemental funding 
 65 sources, including grants. 
 66 b. Does not exceed 50 percent of the annual adjustment 
 67 provided to instructional personnel rated as effective. 
 68 3. Advanced degrees.—A district school board may use 
 69 advanced degrees in setting a salary schedule for instructional 
 70 personnel or school administrators if the advanced degree is 
 71 held in the individual’s area of certification, a field related 
 72 to his or her teaching assignment, or a related field of study. 
 73 For purposes of the salary schedule, an advanced degree may 
 74 include a master’s degree or higher in the individual’s area of 
 75 certification or teaching assignment, or an advanced degree in 
 76 another field with a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours 
 77 related to the individual’s area of certification or teaching 
 78 assignment. 
 79 4. Grandfathered salary schedule.— 
 80 a. The district school board shall adopt a salary schedule 
 81 or salary schedules to be used as the basis for paying all 
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