FISCAL
NOTE
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Education then Finance.
A BILL to amend the Code
of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
§18-3-13, relating to redirecting certain funds of the West Virginia Department
of Education; requiring the department to transfer an amount equal to one half
of the department’s 2017 budget for administrative costs into a special account
for the purpose of increasing teacher salaries.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, by adding thereto a new
section, designated §18-3-13, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. State
Superintendent of Schools.
§18-3-13. Department
of Education administrative budget; special fund created.
(a) For the purposes of
this section, the term “administrative costs” means the amount of funds that
the West Virginia Department of Education expended, during the state’s fiscal
year beginning in 2017, to maintain the department’s daily operations and
administer business, including but not limited to funds used for staff
salaries, office space, office supplies and equipment, and utility bills.
(b) For the state’s fiscal
year beginning in 2018 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the superintendent
shall transfer an amount equal to one half of the West Virginia Department of
Education’s administrative costs for the year 2017 into a special account in the
State Treasury to be known as the “Teacher’s Salary Improvement Fund.”
(c) Expenditures from the
Teacher’s Salary Improvement Fund shall be solely for the purpose of increasing
teacher salaries throughout the state.
(d) The State Board of
Education shall promulgate legislative rules to distribute the funds from the
Teacher’s Salary Improvement Fund to
increase teacher salaries in a manner that meets the requirements of article
four, chapter eighteen-a of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to require the West Virginia Department of Education to transfer an amount
equal to one half of the department’s 2017 budget for administrative costs into
a special account for the purpose of increasing teacher salaries.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.