BILL REQ. #:  H-5450.1 

     AN ACT Relating to adjusting salary bonuses associated with the national board for professional teaching standards; and amending RCW 28A.405.415.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 28A.405.415 and 2009 c 539 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Certificated instructional staff who have attained certification from the national board for professional teaching standards shall receive a bonus each year in which they maintain the certification and are in an instructional assignment in a Washington public school. The bonus shall be calculated as follows: The annual bonus shall be five thousand dollars in the 2007-08 school year. Thereafter, the annual bonus shall increase by inflation, except as otherwise provided in this section. For the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years the annual bonus shall be subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this purpose. During the 2011-2013 and 2013-2015 fiscal biennia, in addition to annual adjustments for inflation, the bonus amount shall be additionally increased such that, by the end of the 2014-15 school year, national board bonus amounts are, at a minimum, equal to what they would have been if annual adjustments for inflation had not been suspended during the 2009-10 or 2010-11 school year.
     (2) Certificated instructional staff who have attained certification from the national board for professional teaching standards shall be eligible for bonuses in addition to that provided by subsection (1) of this section if the individual is in an instructional assignment in ((a school in which at least seventy percent of the students qualify for the free and reduced-price lunch program)):
     (a) A high school where at least fifty percent of student headcount enrollment is eligible for federal free or reduced price lunch;
     (b) A middle school where at least sixty percent of student headcount enrollment is eligible for federal free or reduced price lunch; or
     (c) An elementary school where at least seventy percent of student headcount enrollment is eligible for federal free or reduced price lunch.
     (3) The amount of the additional bonus under subsection (2) of this section for those meeting the qualifications of subsection (2) of this section is ((five)) two thousand five hundred dollars for the 2010-11 school year, and thereafter may be adjusted as provided in the omnibus appropriations act.
     (4) The bonuses provided under this section are in addition to compensation received under a district's salary schedule adopted in accordance with RCW 28A.405.200 and shall not be included in calculations of a district's average salary and associated salary limitations under RCW 28A.400.200.
     (5) The bonuses provided under this section shall be paid in a lump sum amount.