Bill Text: NJ S263 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy of up to five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-14 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S263 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-S263-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 263

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Senator  JIM WHELAN

District 2 (Atlantic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits a board of education to adopt a salary policy of up to five years.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning certain salary policies adopted by boards of education and amending N.J.S.18A:29-4.1.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    N.J.S.18A:29-4.1 is amended to read as follows:

     18A:29-4.1  A board of education of any district may adopt a [one, two or three year] one, two, three, four, or five year salary policy, including salary schedules for all full-time teaching staff members which shall not be less than those required by law.  [Such] The policy and schedules shall be binding upon the adopting board and upon all future boards in the same district for a period [of one, two or three years from the effective date of such] of one, two, three, four, or five years from the effective date of the policy but shall not prohibit the payment of salaries higher than those required by [such] the policy or schedules nor the subsequent adoption of policies or schedules providing for higher salaries, increments or adjustments.

     Every school budget adopted, certified or approved by the board, the voters of the district, the board of school estimate, the governing body of the municipality or municipalities, or the commissioner, as the case may be, shall contain such amounts as may be necessary to fully implement [such] the policy and schedules for that budget year.

(cf:  P.L.1987, c.123, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Current law provides that the salary policy adopted by a board of education for teaching staff members may be for one, two, or three years.  This bill also permits a board to adopt a salary policy for four or five years.