NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 972

HOUSE BILL 674

 

 

AN ACT DIRECTING THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION TO STUDY PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES' SALARIES, AND OTHER MATTERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Legislative Research Commission, as structured by G.S. 120-30.10 et seq., shall make a thorough study of adequate salaries for public school employees, and the commission shall recommend adjustments in the salary index schedule for public school employees.

Sec. 2.  The commission shall study the authorization for, and use of, office and clerical personnel within the public school system including: the current methods of funding personnel positions, the optimum ratio of office and clerical personnel to the number of students within the system, and the job descriptions necessary in school systems of various sizes. (Originated in S.J.R. 896.)

Sec. 3.  The commission shall study the advisability of using State funds to provide trained and qualified attendance counselors to local education agencies including: the ratio of counselors to students, minimum educational standards, certification requirements, rate of pay, and function of attendance counselors. (Originated in H.B. 981.)

Sec. 4.  The commission shall study the financing, the benefits, and the operations of the Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Retirement Fund (including the Basic Benefit Fund and other funds) and the Firemen's Pension Fund. The commission shall further examine:

(1)        providing a permanent plan to require employer's participation in the LEOBRF to contribute to the Basic Benefit Fund;

(2)        transferring the LEOBRF and the Firemen's Pension Fund to the Department of the State Treasurer by a Type II transfer;

(3)        alternate methods of funding the LEOBRF and the Firemen's Pension Fund.

Sec. 5.  The commission shall report on these subjects on the convening of the 1977 General Assembly, Second Session 1978.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.