North Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Carolina Senate Bill S649 Latest Draft

Bill / Amended Version Filed 03/26/2025

                            GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA 
SESSION 2025 
S 	1 
SENATE BILL 649 
 
 
Short Title: Restore Master's Pay for Teachers & ISP. 	(Public) 
Sponsors: Senator Mohammed (Primary Sponsor). 
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate 
March 26, 2025 
*S649 -v-1* 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 
AN ACT TO REINSTATE EDUCATION-BASED SALARY SUPPLEMENTS FOR 2 
TEACHERS AND INSTRUC TIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL. 3 
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4 
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-302.10 is repealed. 5 
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2025-2026 fiscal 6 
year, State Board of Education policy TCP-A-006, as it was in effect on June 30, 2013, shall be 7 
used to determine (i) whether teachers and instructional support personnel are paid on the "M" 8 
salary schedule and (ii) whether they receive a salary supplement for academic preparation at the 9 
six-year or doctoral degree level. 10 
SECTION 3. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 11 
Public Instruction the sum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in recurring funds for the 12 
2025-2026 fiscal year to reinstate education-based salary supplements for teachers and 13 
instructional support personnel in accordance with this act. 14 
SECTION 4. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 15