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SB 280: Teacher Salaries

GENERAL BILL by Soto ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Bullard ; Sobel ; Abruzzo

Teacher Salaries; Citing this act as the "Florida Teacher Fair Pay Act"; requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida Education Finance Program at a level that ensures a guaranteed minimum annual starting salary for instructional personnel; requiring the Department of Education to annually adjust the minimum starting salary; providing a formula for calculating such adjustment; requiring district school boards to adjust the minimum starting salary determined by the department by applying the district cost differential; providing that such adjustment may not reduce starting salaries below the statewide minimum, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2015
Last Action: 5/1/2015 Senate - Died in Education Pre-K - 12
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Education Pre-K - 12 (ED)
  2. Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (AED)
  3. Appropriations (AP)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/7/2015 Senate • Filed
1/15/2015 Senate • Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations -SJ 49
3/3/2015 Senate • Introduced -SJ 49
5/1/2015 Senate • Died in Education Pre-K - 12