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FL H0865

Bill

Status

Failed

4/30/2021

Primary Sponsor

Rene Plasencia

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Origin

House of Representatives

2021 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Renames the "teacher salary increase allocation" to the "instructional personnel salary increase allocation" and expands eligibility for the $47,500 minimum base salary from classroom teachers only (s. 1012.01(2)(a)) to all instructional personnel defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a)-(d), including certified prekindergarten teachers
  • Expands the definition of "classroom teacher" to explicitly include certified prekindergarten teachers alongside those in basic instruction, exceptional student education, career education, and adult education
  • Changes performance-based salary adjustments from mandatory to permissive, allowing rather than requiring district school boards to base compensation on performance evaluations for instructional personnel and school administrators
  • Eliminates the separate "performance salary schedule" and "grandfathered salary schedule" framework established in 2014, consolidating into a single salary schedule structure while removing specific requirements such as mandatory placement of post-2014 hires on performance schedules
  • Effective date of July 1, 2021

Legislative Description

School Administrator and Instructional Personnel Salaries

Last Action

Died in PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee

4/30/2021

Committee Referrals

Prek-12 Appropriations Subcommittee2/22/2021

Full Bill Text

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