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H445 • 2025

Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries.

Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries.

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
von Haefen, Quick, Ball, Prather, Ager, Belk, G. Brown, Budd, Carney, Cervania, Clark, Crawford, Dahle, Dew, Harrison, Hawkins, F. Jackson, Johnson-Hostler, Logan, Longest, Rubin
Last action
2025-03-20
Official status
Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
2025-07-01

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Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries.

Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries.

What This Bill Does

  • Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-20 House

    Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-03-20 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-03-18 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 445

Short Title: Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives von Haefen, Quick, Ball, and Prather (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
March 20, 2025
*H445-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO REINSTATE EDUCATION-BASED SALA RY SUPPLEMENTS FOR 2
TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL, INCLUDING SCHOOL 3
SOCIAL WORKERS, AND TO REQUIRE LOCAL BOA RDS OF EDUCATION TO 4
PUBLICIZE SALARY SCH EDULES FOR OCCUPATIO NAL THERAPISTS AND 5
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS. 6
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 7
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PART I. REINSTATE ED UCATION-BASED SALARY SUPPLEMENTS FOR 9
TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL, INCLUDING SCHOOL 10
SOCIAL WORKERS 11
SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 115C-302.10 is repealed. 12
SECTION 1.(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2025 -2026 13
fiscal year, State Board of Education policy TCP -A-006, as it was in effect on June 30, 2013, 14
shall be used to determine (i) whether teachers and instructional support p ersonnel, including 15
school social workers, are paid on the "M" salary schedule and (ii) whether they receive a salary 16
supplement for academic preparation at the six-year or doctoral degree level. 17
SECTION 1.(c) There is appropriated from the General Fund t o the Department of 18
Public Instruction the sum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in recurring funds for the 19
2025-2026 fiscal year to reinstate education -based salary supplements for teachers and 20
instructional support personnel, including school social workers, in accordance with this section. 21
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PART II. PUBLICIZE M INIMUM SALARY SCHEDU LES FOR OCCUPATIONAL 23
THERAPISTS AND PHYSICAL THERAPISTS 24
SECTION 2. G.S. 115C-316(b1) reads as rewritten: 25
"(b1) Every local board of education shall adopt a minimum salary s chedule for 26
occupational therapists and physical therapists employed in full -time, permanent positions. The 27
minimum salary schedule shall apply to positions paid from State, local, or federal funds. In 28
accordance with the noncertified salary grades and ran ges adopted by the State Board of 29
Education, the minimum salary schedule shall differentiate salaries based on years of experience, 30
but experience-based intervals shall be no greater than five years. Local boards of education may 31
compensate occupational therapists and physical therapists above the minimum salary schedule 32
provided all State-funded salaries are within the noncertified salary grades and ranges adopted 33
by the State Board of Education. No later than October 15 of each year, every local board of 34
General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
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education shall publish on its website the salary schedule adopted for occupational therapists and 1
physical therapists pursuant to this subsection for that school year." 2
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PART III. EFFECTIVE DATE 4
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 5