Florida Senate - 2019                                     SB 152
       
       
        
       By Senator Rader
       
       
       
       
       
       29-00187-19                                            2019152__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to instructional personnel salaries;
    3         creating s. 1012.052, F.S.; providing a short title;
    4         requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida
    5         Education Finance Program at a level that ensures that
    6         certain schedules guarantee a minimum annual starting
    7         salary for instructional personnel; specifying a
    8         statewide minimum salary for all instructional
    9         personnel for the 2019-2020 fiscal year; requiring the
   10         Department of Education to annually calculate an
   11         adjusted statewide minimum annual starting salary;
   12         providing requirements for calculating the adjustment;
   13         requiring district school boards to adjust the
   14         statewide minimum annual starting salary, as
   15         determined by the department, by applying district
   16         cost differentials; specifying that the adjustment may
   17         not reduce a district’s minimum annual starting salary
   18         below the statewide minimum annual starting salary;
   19         providing an effective date.
   20          
   21  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   22  
   23         Section 1. Section 1012.052, Florida Statutes, is created
   24  to read:
   25         1012.052 Instructional personnel salaries.—
   26         (1) This section may be cited as the “Florida Teacher Fair
   27  Pay Act.”
   28         (2) In order to attract and retain instructional personnel,
   29  the Legislature shall fund the Florida Education Finance Program
   30  at a level that ensures that the collectively bargained salary
   31  schedules for instructional personnel are sufficient to
   32  guarantee a minimum annual starting salary while maintaining
   33  adequate funding for all other education program areas and
   34  personnel.
   35         (a) For the 2019-2020 fiscal year, the statewide minimum
   36  salary for all instructional personnel is $50,000. By November 1
   37  of each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Education
   38  shall calculate an adjusted statewide minimum annual starting
   39  salary for the upcoming fiscal year by increasing the minimum
   40  annual starting salary then in force by the rate of inflation
   41  for the 12-month period ending on September 1. In making this
   42  adjusted statewide minimum annual starting salary calculation,
   43  the department shall use the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage
   44  Earners and Clerical Workers, not seasonally adjusted, for the
   45  South Region or a successor index as calculated by the United
   46  States Department of Labor.
   47         (b) Each district school board shall adjust the statewide
   48  minimum annual starting salary, as calculated by the department,
   49  by applying the district cost differential as provided in s.
   50  1011.62(2). However, application of the district cost
   51  differential may not decrease the minimum annual starting salary
   52  in any district below the statewide minimum annual starting
   53  salary.
   54         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.