Oklahoma § 57-510.6 - Intent of Legislature - Educational opportunities for

§ 57-510.6. Intent of Legislature - Educational opportunities for

inmates.

It is the intent of the Legislature to provide the opportunity

for inmates in the Department of Corrections to receive a basic

education and further to provide incentives for inmates to

participate in education programs.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 125, § 2, emerg. eff. April 29, 1993.

§57-510.6a. Correctional teachers or vocational instructors Salary and fringe benefits - Nonteaching administrators - Pay

raises.

A. Persons certified to teach in this state and meeting all

minimum qualifications set by the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services, who are hired or employed as correctional

teachers or vocational instructors by the Department of Corrections

educational program, shall receive in salary the minimum amounts

specified in Section 1 of Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1119 of the 1st

Session of the 59th Oklahoma Legislature multiplied by a factor of

1.20. Correctional teachers serving as lead workers with

supervisory responsibilities shall receive the minimum amounts

specified above multiplied by a factor of 1.25. Correctional

teachers who have a special education certificate shall receive

salary of an additional five percent (5%). Correctional teachers

shall receive the benefits set forth in Sections 1370 and 1707 of

Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes; provided, however, correctional

teachers shall not be eligible for longevity payments pursuant to

Section 840-2.18 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Eligible

persons employed as correctional teachers or vocational instructors

by the Department of Corrections shall be entitled to paid maternity

leave as provided for in Section 1 of this act.

B. Persons employed by the Department of Corrections school

system as nonteaching administrators shall be in the unclassified

service and shall not be placed under the classified service;

however, any classified employee occupying an administrative

position prior to July 1, 2000, shall retain the right to remain in

the classified service. At such time as such position becomes

vacant, it shall be placed in the unclassified service.

C. Except as provided by this section of law, the employment of

persons by the Department of Corrections educational program as

teachers or administrators shall be entirely governed by the

provisions of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes and any other laws

or rules regarding state employees and their employment; however, no

Department of Corrections correctional teacher or vocational

instructor, whose salary is calculated in accordance with the

provisions of this section, shall be entitled to receive any pay

increases for state employees authorized elsewhere in statute, rule,

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 57. Prisons and Reformatories

or law. Correctional teachers or vocational instructors shall

receive any legislated pay increases granted in addition to the

Title 70 minimum salary schedule; provided, such increases are given

to all common education/vocational technical teachers.

D. The salaries for all correctional teachers and vocational

instructors shall be adjusted annually on July 1 unless legislation

authorizes a pay raise for educators with an implementation date

other than July 1, in which case the annual adjustment shall occur

on the date of the pay raise implementation.

E. The monthly salaries of correctional teachers and vocational

instructors employed by the Department of Corrections on the

effective date of this act will be adjusted according to the

procedures authorized in subsection A of this section on the first

day of the month following the effective date of this act.

Longevity payments will be eliminated in the month following the

effective date of this act for correctional teachers and vocational

instructors whose salaries are calculated according to the

provisions of this section. The salaries of the employees governed

by this section who are employed on the effective date of this act

will be recalculated. The recalculation will be based on the

provisions of subsection A of this section for actual time employed

as a Department of Corrections correctional teacher or vocational

instructor between July 1, 2004, and the last day of the month in

which this act becomes effective. Authorized employees will receive

a one-time payment equal to the difference between the recalculated

salary amount and the compensation received.

Added by Laws 2000, c. 282, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000. Amended by Laws

2005, c. 424, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 246; Laws

2023, c. 291, § 6, eff. July 1, 2023.