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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 1884 By: Waldron
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; enacting the Big Yellow
School Bus Act; amending 70 O.S. 2021, Section 6-
101.42, which relates to support employee pay;
providing for increase in compensation of certain
school support employees; prescribing amount of
increase; providing increase in compensation as
additional to certain other compensation and fringe
benefits; providing for prorated computation;
providing for noncodification; providing an effective
date; and declaring a n emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not t o be
codified in the Oklahoma St atutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Big Yellow
School Bus Act".
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 6 -101.42, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 6-101.42 A. For the 2023-2024 school year, each school
district shall provide to ev ery support employee, as defined in
paragraph 8 of Section 1-116 of this title, with a salary of less
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than Eighty Thousand Dollar s ($80,000.00) per year, a twenty-percent
(20%) wage increase over the base a mount the employee earned dur ing
the 2022-2023 school year if the support employee is employed by the
same school district for the 202 3-2024 school year. The dollar
amount of the salary increase required by this subsection shall be
prorated based upon the number of total hours of work perf ormed by a
full-time-equivalent support employee. If a support employee is a
new employee of the school dist rict, his or her starting salary
shall be a twenty-percent (20%) increase from t he starting salary
for the same position during the 2022-2023 school year.
B. For the 2018-19 school year, each school district shall
provide to every support employee a wage increase over the base
amount the employee earned during the 2017 -18 school year if the
support employee is employed by the same school district for the
2018-19 school year in the amount of One Thousand Two Hundred Fifty
Dollars ($1,250.00). The dollar amount of salary increase
authorized by this subsection shall be prorated based up on the
number of total hours of work performed by a full -time-equivalent
support employee.
B. C. The increase increases prescribed by this section shall
be in addition to any other compensation , increase in compensation,
and fringe benefits provided by th e district or state, or mandated
by law or collective bargaining agre ement, unless the hours or
duties of the support employee are reduced proportionately.
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SECTION 3. This act shall be come effective July 1, 2023.
SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
59-1-5017 EK 01/08/23