North Carolina SB 99: Fire, Rescue, & Safety Worker System Changes.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 99

Short Title: Extended-Year Teacher Contracts. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Meyer, Robinson, and Murdock (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
February 17, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR EXTENDED-YEAR CONTRACTS FOR INITIALLY 2
LICENSED TEACHERS, MENTOR TEACHERS, TEACHERS IN LOW-PERFORMING 3
SCHOOLS, AND CERTAIN VETERAN TEACHERS. 4
Whereas, students who are struggling in school need an extended school year and 5
individualized instructional support; and 6
Whereas, students and teachers would benefit from additional opportunities for 7
teachers to participate in professional development; and 8
Whereas, teachers have limited time to engage in professional development during 9
the school year because their time is largely committed to working with students; and 10
Whereas, teachers need more time to learn from other teachers in the context of 11
teacher-designed and teacher-led professional development; and 12
Whereas, effective professional development requires learning that is situated in 13
teachers' actual practice and focused on students' thinking and work instead of separated from 14
teaching and learning by time and location; and 15
Whereas, communities of practice are essential to providing teachers with 16
opportunities to lead, learn from, and collaborate with their professional peers; and 17
Whereas, transformative learning takes time to become established, and professional 18
development that is sustained over the course of an academic year provides that time; and 19
Whereas, teacher evaluations should provide meaningful feedback to teachers; and 20
Whereas, the teacher evaluation process can incorporate professional development in 21
order to improve teacher performance; and 22
Whereas, teachers should be compensated for participating in professional activities 23
by way of an extended contractual year; and 24
Whereas, the General Assembly supports providing compensation for teachers in 25
accordance with advanced teaching roles; and 26
Whereas, extended-year teacher contracts and advanced teaching roles can 27
complement one another to improve teacher performance and student achievement; Now, 28
therefore, 29
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 30
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-302.1 reads as rewritten: 31
"§ 115C-302.1. Salary. 32
(a) Prompt Payment. – Teachers shall be paid promptly when their salaries are due 33
provided the legal requirements for their employment and service have been met. All teachers 34
employed by any local school administrative unit who are to be paid from local funds shall be 35
paid promptly as provided by law and as State-allotted teachers are paid. 36

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(b) Salary Payments. Payments Under Terms of Contracts. – State-allotted teachers shall 1
be paid for a term of 10 months. as follows: 2
(1) Extended-year contract teachers. – Teachers designated as extended-year 3
contract teachers as provided in G.S. 115C-306.1 shall be paid for a term of 4
11 months. 5
(2) Career and technical education teachers. – Except for career and technical 6
education agriculture teacher personnel positions as provided for in this 7
subsection, subdivision, State-allotted months of employment for career and 8
technical education to local boards shall be used for the employment of 9
teachers of career and technical education for a term of employment to be 10
determined by the local boards of education. Beginning with the 2018-2019 11
school year, career and technical education agriculture teacher personnel 12
positions serving students in grades nine through 12 shall be for a term of 13
employment for 12 calendar months. A local board of education may fund 14
these positions using any combination of State funds, local funds, or any other 15
funds available to the local board. 16
(3) 10-month term teachers. – All other teachers shall be paid for a term of 10 17
months. 18
Each local board of education shall establish a set date on which monthly salary payments to 19
State-allotted teachers shall be made. This set pay date may differ from the end of the month of 20
service. The daily rate of pay for teachers shall equal midway between one twenty-first and one 21
twenty-second of the monthly rate of pay. Except for teachers employed in a year-round school 22
or school, paid in accordance with a year-round calendar, or both, employed on an extended-year 23
contract, the initial pay date for teachers shall be no later than August 31 and shall include a full 24
monthly payment. Subsequent pay dates shall be spaced no more than one month apart and shall 25
include a full monthly payment. 26
Teachers may be prepaid on the monthly pay date for days not yet worked. A teacher who 27
fails to attend scheduled workdays or who has not worked the number of days for which the 28
teacher has been paid and