HB173 Alabama 2013 Session

This bill provides for cost-of-living increases for public education employees and certain retirees and beneficiaries under the Teachers' Retirement System

Relating to the salaries of public education employees, to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect pay increases of at least five percent beginning with the fiscal year 2013-14, two and one-half percent beginning with the fiscal year 2014-15 and two and one-half percent beginning with the fiscal year 2015-16; to provide that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increases according to placement on the appropriate salary step; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with at least a $1,000 pay increase or a five percent cost-of-living adjustment (whichever amount is greater) beginning with the fiscal year 2013-14, two and one-half percent beginning with the fiscal year 2014-15 and two and one-half percent beginning with the fiscal year 2015-16; to require salary schedules; to provide the employees of certain other public educational institutions and schools with a five percent cost-of-living adjustment for the fiscal year beginning with 2013-14, two and one-half percent beginning with the fiscal year 2014-15 and two and one-half percent beginning with the fiscal year 2015-16; to provide for an across-the-board salary increase on all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; to provide for a five percent cost-of-living adjustment for retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System beginning October 1, 2013, a two and one-half percent cost-of-living adjustment for retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System beginning October 1, 2014 and a two and one-half percent cost-of-living adjustment for retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System beginning October 1, 2015 to establish miscellaneous pay provisions; to require appropriations in the annual Education Budget Act to meet the requirements of this act; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of state and local funds.