OK HB3129

School districts must adopt minimum salary schedules and transmit them to the State Board of Education within 30 days, and cannot calculate teacher salaries solely as a proportion of administrator salaries.

Districts seeking differential pay funding must adopt compensation schedules that may include pay differentials for subject areas, hard-to-staff positions, employee categories, incentive pay, retention bonuses, performance ratings, and geographic attributes, but cannot base schedules solely on years of service.

The State Department of Education must compile and report all district minimum and differential pay schedules to the Governor, Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tempore by December 15 annually, and districts must report how they used any differential pay funding received.

Revenue from reconfiguration or repeal of state incentives shall be allocated to school districts for differential pay schedules and cannot be used for across-the-board salary increases for all teachers.

The act becomes effective July 1, 2016, and is declared an emergency measure.