SB451 SFA #3 Takubo 2-1

Johnson  7909

Senator Takubo moved to amend the bill on page one hundred nineteen, section ten, lines eighty-one through eighty-eight, by striking out all of subsection (c) and inserting in  lieu thereof a new subsection, designated subsection (c), to read as follow:

(c) (1) A classroom teacher who has not been absent for more than four days during the 200-day employment term shall receive a bonus of $500 at the end of the school year.

(2) If the appropriations to the Department of Education for this purpose are insufficient to compensate all applicable classroom teachers, the Department of Education shall request a supplemental appropriation in an amount sufficient to compensate all classroom teachers.  This payment may not be counted as part of the final average salary for the purpose of calculating retirement.

Adopted

Rejected