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2023 SESSION
23102903DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22.1-289.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-289.1. Teacher compensation; competitive rate; calculation; review.
It is a goal of the The Commonwealth that
shall compensate its public school teachers be compensated at a rate
that is competitive in order to attract and keep highly qualified teachers. As
used in this section, "competitive" means, at a minimum, at or above
the national average teacher salary. The Department shall conduct an annual
calculation to determine the estimated national average teacher salary for each
year of the current budget biennium. Such calculation shall rely on the most
up-to-date data from the source of the 50-state average salary of K-12 teachers
in public school set forth in the annual Virginia Compared with the Other
States report published by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
In making such calculation, the Department may use the trends of the percent
change for the national average teacher salaries in the two to four years prior
to project averages in each year of the current and upcoming biennia. The
results of such calculation shall be reported to the Governor, the General
Assembly, and the Board by June 1 of each year. The Department of
Education shall also conduct a biennial review of the compensation
of teachers and shall consider the Commonwealth's compensation for teachers
relative to the national average teacher salary. The results of these
reviews each such review shall be reported to the Governor, the
General Assembly, and the Board of Education by June 1 of each
odd-numbered year.
2. That the provisions of this act shall become effective on July 1, 2024.
[ 3. That state
funding shall be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum
sufficient to fund a flat percent annual pay increase for each individual
employed in a Standards of Quality-funded position, provided that such increase
yields the state portion required to meet or exceed the national teacher pay
average in the Commonwealth as required pursuant to § 22.1-289.1 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by this act, and (i) is subject to a local matching
requirement in accordance with each local school board's composite index of
local ability-to-pay and (ii) shall be adjusted annually as necessary to
account for rebenchmarking and to yield a rate of compensation percentage
increase for all Standards of Quality-funded positions that is pegged to
providing a competitive average teacher salary in the Commonwealth. ]