Teacher Salary Supplement/Guilford Cnty Schs.
SB 285 authorizes supplemental funding for teacher and qualifying school administrator salary supplements in North Carolina for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium, specifically including Guilford County Schools as an eligible recipient. The bill establishes a funding formula based on county-specific factors like property values, household income, and tax rates to determine allocations, with a maximum of $5,000 per State-funded teacher. Eligible school districts must use these funds to supplement, not replace, existing non-State funding for teacher salaries. The bill directly affects teachers and administrators in eligible school districts across the state, with Guilford County explicitly named as an eligible jurisdiction.
Bill status
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1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 13, 2025
Last action Mar 17, 2025
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MINOR
This bill update adds the Rules and Operations of the Senate as the referral committee and updates the bill version number. The substantive change clarifies how the State Board determines funding amounts for eligible school units, now explicitly considering the eligible county or counties where the unit is located.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains focused on teacher salary supplements for Guilford County schools, but the funding determination process is now more explicitly tied to county eligibility.
TECHNICAL
Added Senate referral information showing the bill was referred to Rules and Operations of the Senate on March 17, 2025.
Updated bill version identifier from DRS15123-MT-121 to S285-v-1.
FISCAL
Modified the funding determination language to specify that the State Board shall determine funding amounts based on per teacher funding amounts for the eligible county or counties where the unit is located, rather than the previous incomplete text.
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Mar 17, 2025
Committee
Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Committee
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Introduced
Filed
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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