Florida Senate - 2019                                    SB 1644
       
       
        
       By Senator Powell
       
       
       
       
       
       30-01963A-19                                          20191644__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to instructional personnel and
    3         educational support employee salaries; creating ss.
    4         1012.053 and 1012.054, F.S.; providing short titles;
    5         requiring the Legislature to fund the Florida
    6         Education Finance Program at a level that ensures that
    7         instructional personnel and educational support
    8         employees earn a living wage; providing for specified
    9         percentage increases to the base salaries of
   10         instructional personnel and educational support
   11         employees for certain years; providing an effective
   12         date.
   13          
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 1012.053, Florida Statutes, is created
   17  to read:
   18         1012.053 Instructional personnel salaries.—
   19         (1) This section may be cited as the “Florida Instructional
   20  Personnel Fair Pay Act.”
   21         (2) In order to attract and retain instructional personnel,
   22  the Legislature shall fund the Florida Education Finance Program
   23  at a level that ensures that the collectively bargained salary
   24  schedules for instructional personnel are sufficient to
   25  guarantee a living wage while maintaining adequate funding for
   26  all other education program areas and personnel.
   27         (3) Effective July 1, 2020, each instructional personnel,
   28  as defined in s. 1012.01(2), is provided a 5 percent increase on
   29  his or her June 30, 2019, base salary.
   30         (4) Effective July 1, 2021, each instructional personnel,
   31  as defined in s. 1012.01(2), is provided a 4 percent increase on
   32  his or her June 30, 2020, base salary.
   33         (5) Effective July 1, 2022, each instructional personnel,
   34  as defined in s. 1012.01(2), is provided a 4 percent increase on
   35  his or her June 30, 2021, base salary.
   36         Section 2. Section 1012.054, Florida Statutes, is created
   37  to read:
   38         1012.054 Educational support employees’ salaries.—
   39         (1) This section may be cited as the “Florida Educational
   40  Support Employees Fair Pay Act.”
   41         (2) In order to attract and retain educational support
   42  employees, the Legislature shall fund the Florida Education
   43  Finance Program at a level that ensures that the collectively
   44  bargained salary schedules for educational support employees are
   45  sufficient to guarantee a living wage while maintaining adequate
   46  funding for all other education program areas and personnel.
   47         (3) Effective July 1, 2020, each educational support
   48  employee, as defined in s. 1012.01(6), is provided a 5 percent
   49  increase on his or her June 30, 2019, base salary.
   50         (4) Effective July 1, 2021, each educational support
   51  employee, as defined in s. 1012.01(6), is provided a 4 percent
   52  increase on his or her June 30, 2020, base salary.
   53         (5) Effective July 1, 2022, each educational support
   54  employee, as defined in s. 1012.01(6), is provided a 4 percent
   55  increase on his or her June 30, 2021, base salary.
   56         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.