Title: Instructional Personnel and Educational Support Employee Salaries

Summary: Requires Legislature to fund FEFP at level that ensures that instructional personnel & educational support employees earn living wage; provides for specified percentage increases to base salaries of instructional personnel & educational support employees for certain years.

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An act relating to instructional personnel and educational support employee salaries; creating ss. 1012.053 and 1012.054, F.S.; providing a short title; requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida Education Finance Program at a level that ensures that instructional personnel and educational support employees earn a living wage; providing for specified percentage increases to the base salaries of instructional pers onnel and educational support employees for certain years; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 1012.053, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 1012.053 Instructional personne lsalaries.-(1) This section may be cited as the "Florida Instructional Personnel Fair Pay Act." (2) In order to attract and retain instructional personnel, the Legislature shall fund the Florida Education Finance Program at a level that ensures that the collectively bargained salary schedules for instructional personnel are sufficient to guarantee a living wage while maintaining adequate HB 1413 2019 funding for all other education program areas and personnel. (3) Effective July 1, 2020, each instructional perso nnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2), is provided a percent increase on his or her June 30, 2019, base salary. (4) Effective July 1, 2021, each instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2), is provided a percent increase on his or her June 30, 020, base salary. (5) Effective July 1, 2022, each instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2), is provided a percent increase on his or her June 30, 2021, base salary. Section 2. Section 1012.054, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 1012.054 Educational support employees' salaries.-(1) This section may be cited as the "Florida Educational Support Employees Fair Pay Act." (2) In order to attract and retain educational support employees, the Legislature shall fund the Florida Educat ion Finance Program at a level that ensures that the collectively bargained salary schedules for educational support employees are sufficient to guarantee a living wage while maintaining adequate funding for all other education program areas and personnel. (3) Effective July 1, 2020, each educational support employee, as defined in s. 1012.01(6), is provided a percent increase on his or her June 30, 2019, base salary. (4) Effective July 1, 2021, each educational support HB 1413 2019 employee, as defined in s. 1012.01(6), is provided a percent increase on his or her June 30, 2020, base salary. (5) Effective July 1, 2022, each educational support employee, as defined in s. 1012.01(6), is provided a percent increase on his or her June 30, 2021, base salary. Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.