Relating to the salaries of public education employees; to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect a pay increase of two percent beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to provide that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a two percent pay increase beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to require salary schedules; to provide the employees of certain other public educational institutions and schools with a two percent pay increase for the 2023-2024 fiscal year; 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; and to establish miscellaneous pay provisions relating to public education.
Summary
Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase
Bill status
signed
all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 21, 2023
Signed Jun 1, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 4, 2023
How they voted
33–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 34
May 4, 2023
D
Democratic8
100% Yea
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
6
Committee
5
May 25, 2023
Upper · Passed
Read a Third Time and Pass
upper
May 24, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in Second House
upper
May 24, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Favorably (Ways and Means Education)
upper
May 4, 2023
Committee
Referred to Committee (Ways and Means Education)
upper
May 4, 2023
Upper · Passed
Read a Third Time and Pass
upper
May 3, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
upper
May 3, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Favorably (Finance and Taxation Education)
upper
Mar 21, 2023
Introduced
Introduced and Referred (Transportation and Energy)
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Arthur Orr
RRepublican
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