FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 438
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS BENTLEY AND STOLL.
Read 1st time February 7, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1754S.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 168, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to salary supplements for nationally-certified teachers.
Section A. Chapter 168, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 168.700, to read as follows:
168.700. 1. The state board of education shall establish a program of salary supplements for teachers in the public schools receiving certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. An annual salary stipend of five thousand dollars will be given for a period of ten years, commencing in the school year in which the teacher receives certification.
2. Any salary supplement received pursuant to this section shall be in addition to the base salary to which the teacher would otherwise be entitled. Teachers receiving the salary supplement shall receive any pay and benefits received by teachers of similar training, experience, and duties.
3. Salary supplements authorized pursuant to this section shall be paid only during those school years in which the teacher is employed with a Missouri school district.
4. In addition to any payment received pursuant to this section, a teacher receiving certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards may receive a payment equal to ten percent of the teacher's base pay for any school year in which the teacher serves as a mentor teacher to other board certification candidates in a program established by the school district and meeting standards established by the state board of education.
5. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2001, shall be invalid and void.