Bill Text: WV HB4369 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to teacher salary enhancement
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-10 - To House Education [HB4369 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4369-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4369
By Delegate Foster
[Introduced January 10, 2024 ; Referred
to the Committee on Education]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto two new sections, designated §18A-4-2d, and §18A-4-4a, all relating to teacher salary enhancement; requiring that to qualify for certain additional salary provisions, the teacher’s earned master’s degree or graduate work toward or following obtaining a master’s degree, shall be in the field in which the teacher is teaching.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-2d. Master’s degree or work toward a master’s degree in teaching field required to receive certain salary increase.
In order to receive additional salary as specified in §18A-4-2 of this code for having completed an increment of work toward a master’s degree, for obtaining the degree, or for work following the degree, the teacher shall have completed the work in the field in which the teacher is teaching.
§18A-4-4a. Work required in specialized field to qualify for advanced salary classification.
In order to qualify for advanced salary classification provided in §18A-4-4 of this code, the teacher shall have earned the additional semester hours or completed the degree in the specialized field.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that teachers have advanced credit hours in work toward or completion of a master’s degree in their teaching field in order to receive additional salary for master’s degree work.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
