PRINTER'S NO. 462
No. 408 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY GALLAGHER, BURNS, BATTISTO, COWELL, DALEY,
KOSINSKI, LESCOVITZ, DAVIES, FATTAH, AFFLERBACH, STAIRS,
TELEK, HARPER, EVANS, CIVERA, MICOZZIE, ARTY, WIGGINS,
DeWEESE, BUNT, J. L. WRIGHT, KUKOVICH, JOHNSON, WOGAN,
LASHINGER, TIGUE, OLIVER, DOMBROWSKI, CAPPABIANCA, MANMILLER,
LUCYK, CALTAGIRONE, ANGSTADT, MILLER, SWEET AND JOSEPHS,
FEBRUARY 26, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 26, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," providing for minimum salaries, a
6 State salary supplement and for State subsidies to pay for
7 the minimum salaries and salary supplement.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
11 as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding sections
12 to read:
13 Section 1142.1. Minimum Salary.--For the 1985-1986 school
14 year and each school year thereafter, no professional or
15 temporary professional employe below the first level of
16 supervision, as defined in section 301 of the act of July 23,
17 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public Employe Relations
18 Act, shall receive a salary of less than eighteen thousand five
1 hundred dollars ($18,500). Each school entity shall adjust its
2 salary schedule or other salary system to reflect at least the
3 eighteen thousand five hundred dollars ($18,500) minimum salary.
4 The adjustment to the schedule or system shall be made effective
5 upon the expiration of its current collective bargaining
6 agreement, but in no case later than July 1, 1988. For the
7 purpose of this section and section 1142.2, school entity shall
8 include school districts, intermediate units, area vocational-
9 technical schools, State-owned schools, prison schools, youth
10 development centers and community colleges.
11 Section 1142.2. State Salary Supplement.--For the 1985-1986
12 school year and each school year thereafter, any professional
13 employe or temporary professional employe receiving sixteen
14 thousand five hundred one dollars ($16,501) or more on the
15 school entity salary schedule or other salary system shall
16 receive a two thousand dollar ($2,000) State salary supplement.
17 The salary supplement shall be in addition to the salaries set
18 forth in the school entity salary schedule or salary system.
19 Section 2502.13. State Subsidy on Account of Salary
20 Supplement.--(a) For the 1985-1986 school year and each school
21 year thereafter, the Commonwealth shall pay to school districts,
22 intermediate units, State-owned schools, community colleges, and
23 the Department of Education on behalf of its prison schools and
24 youth development center employes, on account of salaries of all
25 professional or temporary professional employes below the first
26 level of supervision, as defined in section 301 of the act of
27 July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public Employe
28 Relations Act, a salary supplement of two thousand dollars
29 ($2,000) times the number of said employes. Each entity shall
30 certify the number of employes and report the information on
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1 forms prepared by the Department of Education by November 1,
2 1985, and each November 1 thereafter. Upon certification of the
3 number of said employes below the level of first level
4 supervisor, the Secretary of Education shall certify to each
5 entity the amount of its salary supplement entitlement by March
6 1, 1986, and each March 1 thereafter. A payment equal to one-
7 half of the entitlement shall be made in April 1986 and the
8 second half in June 1986 and each April and June each school
9 year thereafter.
10 (b) In addition to the amount provided in subsection (a),
11 each school district, intermediate unit, State-owned school, the
12 Department of Education for its prison school employes and youth
13 development center employes, and community colleges, so
14 entitled, shall receive from the Commonwealth during the 1985-
15 1986 school year and each school year thereafter, an amount
16 equal to the sum of the amounts by which the actual salary
17 provided for each professional employe and temporary
18 professional employe below the first level of supervision, as
19 defined in section 301 of the Public Employe Relations Act,
20 under the school entity salary schedule or salary system adopted
21 for the 1985-1986 school year, is less than eighteen thousand
22 five hundred dollars ($18,500). In cases where a professional or
23 temporary professional employe below the first level of
24 supervision is employed for less than a school year, a
25 proportionate amount shall be determined and paid to the school
26 entity on the basis of an eighteen thousand five hundred dollar
27 ($18,500) minimum salary and the 1985-1986 local entity salary
28 schedule or salary system.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 1985.
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