Louisiana § RS 17:421.4 - Salary increases for noninstructional school personnel
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 17:421.4 — Salary increases for noninstructional school personnel, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 17:421.4. Salary increases for noninstructional school personnel
A. The salary increase funded by Act No. 12 of the 1991 Regular Session of the Legislature for noninstructional school employees, including teacher aides and paraprofessionals, school bus operators, food service workers, including school lunch employees provided a pay increase pursuant to Act No. 713 of the 1972 Regular Session of the Legislature, school nurses, clerical, custodial, and maintenance personnel, and any other employees of a city or parish school board or unclassified noninstructional employees of the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, and the Special School District who are not required to hold a teacher's certificate as a condition of employment, shall continue to be paid to such employees from year to year. The legislature annually shall appropriate sufficient funds for this purpose and shall make such funds available to the employing school boards.
B. Any increase in the expenditures of a city or parish school board or of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education resulting from a state-mandated increase in the salaries of noninstructional school personnel shall be fully funded by the state. Such funds shall be made available to the respective school boards. For purposes of this Subsection, noninstructional school personnel shall mean teacher aides and paraprofessionals, school bus operators, food service workers, school nurses, clerical, custodial, and maintenance personnel, and any other employee of a parish or city school board or unclassified noninstructional employee of the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, and the Special School District who is not required to hold a teacher's certificate as a condition of employment.
Acts 1992, No. 199, §1, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 260, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 2014, No. 811, §8, eff. June 23, 2014; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1; Acts 2019, No. 411, §1, eff. June 20, 2019.
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