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8 General Description:
9 This bill provides an increase to the educator salary adjustment.
10 Highlighted Provisions:
11 This bill:
12 ▸ amends provisions to codify and increase the amount of the state-provided educator
13 salary adjustment; and
14 ▸ makes technical and conforming changes.
15 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
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17 Other Special Clauses:
18 This bill provides a special effective date.
19 This bill provides a coordination clause.
20 Utah Code Sections Affected:
21 AMENDS:
22 53F-2-405, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2022, Chapter 415
23 Utah Code Sections Affected by Coordination Clause:
24 53F-2-405, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2022, Chapter 415
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26 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
27 Section 1. Section 53F-2-405 is amended to read:
28 53F-2-405. Educator salary adjustments.
29 (1) As used in this section, "educator" means a person employed by a school district,
30 charter school, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind who holds:
31 (a) (i) a license issued by the state board; and
32 (ii) a position as a:
33 (A) classroom teacher;
34 (B) speech pathologist;
35 (C) librarian or media specialist;
36 (D) preschool teacher;
37 (E) mentor teacher;
38 (F) teacher specialist or teacher leader;
39 (G) guidance counselor;
40 (H) audiologist;
41 (I) psychologist; or
42 (J) social worker; or
43 (b) (i) a license issued by the Division of Professional Licensing; and
44 (ii) a position as a social worker.
45 (2) In recognition of the need to attract and retain highly skilled and dedicated
46 educators, the Legislature shall annually appropriate money for educator salary adjustments,
47 subject to future budget constraints.
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49 (3) (a) The state board shall distribute to each school district, each charter school, and
50 the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind money that the Legislature appropriates for
51 educator salary adjustments based on the number of educator positions described in Subsection
52 (4) in the school district, the charter school, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
53 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(a), if appropriations are insufficient to provide the
54 full amount of educator salary adjustments described in this section, the state board shall
55 distribute money appropriated for educator salary adjustments [
56 districts, charter schools, and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in proportion to the
57 number of full-time-equivalent educator positions in a school district, a charter school, or the
58 Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind as compared to the total number of
59 full-time-equivalent educator positions in school districts, charter schools, and the Utah
60 Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
61 (4) A school district, a charter school, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
62 shall award bonuses to educators as follows:
63 (a) the amount of the salary adjustment [
64 full-time-equivalent educator [
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66 (b) an individual who is not a full-time educator shall receive a partial salary
67 adjustment based on the number of hours the individual works as an educator; and
68 (c) a salary adjustment may be awarded only to an educator who has received a
69 satisfactory rating or above on the educator's most recent evaluation.
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71 Act, the state board:
72 (a) shall make rules to ensure that LEAs do not reduce or artificially limit a teacher's
73 salary to convert the salary supplement in this section into a windfall to the LEA; and
74 (b) may make rules as necessary to administer this section [
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76 (6) (a) Subject to future budget constraints, the Legislature shall appropriate sufficient
77 money each year to:
78 (i) maintain educator salary adjustments provided in prior years; and
79 (ii) provide educator salary adjustments to new employees.
80 (b) Money appropriated for educator salary adjustments shall include money for the
81 following employer-paid benefits:
82 (i) retirement;
83 (ii) worker's compensation;
84 (iii) social security; and
85 (iv) Medicare.
86 (7) (a) Subject to future budget constraints, the Legislature shall:
87 (i) maintain the salary adjustments provided to school administrators in the 2007-08
88 school year; and
89 (ii) provide salary adjustments for new school administrators in the same amount as
90 provided for existing school administrators.
91 (b) The appropriation provided for educator salary adjustments described in this
92 section shall include salary adjustments for school administrators as specified in Subsection
93 (7)(a).
94 (c) In distributing and awarding salary adjustments for school administrators, the state
95 board, a school district, a charter school, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind shall
96 comply with the requirements for the distribution and award of educator salary adjustments as
97 provided in Subsections (3) and (4).
98 Section 2. Effective date.
99 This bill takes effect on July 1, 2023.
100 Section 3. Coordinating H.B. 271 with H.B. 215 -- Superseding technical and
101 substantive amendments.
102 If this H.B. 271 and H.B. 215, Funding for Teacher Salaries and Optional Education
103 Opportunities, both pass and become law, it is the intent of the Legislature that the
104 amendments to Section 53F-2-405 in this bill supersede the amendments to Section 53F-2-405
105 in H.B. 215 when the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel prepares the Utah
106 Code database for publication.