SB 75

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1Educator Salary Adjustment Eligibility
  2026 GENERAL SESSION
  STATE OF UTAH
  Chief Sponsor: Calvin R. Musselman
  House Sponsor: Katy Hall
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3   LONG TITLE
4   General Description:
5This bill adds school nurses to the list of employees who are eligible to receive the educator
6   salary adjustment.
7   Highlighted Provisions:
8This bill:
9▸ adds school nurses to the list of employees who are eligible to receive the educator salary
10   adjustment; and
11▸ makes technical changes.
12   Money Appropriated in this Bill:
13None
14   Other Special Clauses:
15This bill provides a special effective date.
16   Utah Code Sections Affected:
17   AMENDS:
1853F-2-405, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2025, Chapter 165
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20   Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
21Section 1. Section 53F-2-405 is amended to read:
2253F-2-405 . Educator salary adjustments.
23   (1) As used in this section, "educator" means a person employed by a school district,
24charter school, regional education service agency, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and
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25the Blind who holds:
26(a)(i) a license issued by the state board; and
27(ii) a position as a:
28(A) classroom teacher;
29(B) speech pathologist;
30(C) librarian or media specialist;
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31(D) preschool teacher;
32(E) mentor teacher;
33(F) teacher specialist or teacher leader;
34(G) guidance counselor;
35(H) audiologist;
36(I) psychologist; or
37(J) social worker; or
38      (b)(i) a license issued by the Division of Professional Licensing; and
39(ii) a position as a[ ] :
40(A) social worker[.] ; or
41(B) Ŝ→ registered ←Ŝ nurse.
42  (2) In recognition of the need to attract and retain highly skilled and dedicated educators,
43      the Legislature shall annually appropriate money for educator salary adjustments,
44      subject to future budget constraints.
45  (3)(a) The state board shall distribute to each school district, each charter school, each
46      regional education service agency, and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind
47      money that the Legislature appropriates for educator salary adjustments based on the
48      number of educator positions described in Subsection (1) in the school district, the
49      charter school, each regional education service agency, or the Utah Schools for the
50      Deaf and the Blind.
51      (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(a), if appropriations are insufficient to provide the
52full amount of educator salary adjustments described in this section, the state board
53shall distribute money appropriated for educator salary adjustments to school
54districts, charter schools, each regional education service agency, and the Utah
55Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in proportion to the number of
56full-time-equivalent educator positions in a school district, a charter school, each
57regional education service agency, or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind as
58compared to the total number of full-time-equivalent educator positions in school
59districts, charter schools, each regional education service agency, and the Utah
60Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
61  (4) A school district, a charter school, each regional education service agency, or the Utah
62      Schools for the Deaf and the Blind shall award bonuses to educators as follows:
63      (a) for fiscal year 2026, the amount of the salary adjustment for each
64full-time-equivalent educator is:
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65(i) if Chapter 6, Part 4, Utah Fits All Scholarship Program, is funded and in effect,
66$10,350; or
67(ii) if Chapter 6, Part 4, Utah Fits All Scholarship Program, is not funded and in
68effect, $5,175;
69(b) an individual who is not a full-time educator shall receive a partial salary adjustment
70based on the number of hours the individual works as an educator;
71(c) a salary adjustment may not be awarded if an educator has received an unsatisfactory
72rating on the educator's three most recent evaluations; and
73(d) for a fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2024, the amount of the salary
74adjustment is equal to:
75(i) the amount of salary adjustment in the preceding fiscal year; and
76(ii) a percentage increase that is equal to the percentage increase in the value of the
77WPU in the preceding fiscal year.
78   (5) In accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the
79state board:
80(a) shall make rules to ensure that the LEAs do not:
81(i) reduce or supplant a compensation increase from an increase in the WPU value
82with an increase from the salary supplement in this section; or
83(ii) reduce or artificially limit a teacher's salary to convert the salary supplement in
84this section into a windfall to the LEA; and
85(b) may make rules as necessary to administer this section.
86   (6)(a) Subject to future budget constraints, the Legislature shall appropriate sufficient
87money each year to:
88(i) maintain educator salary adjustments provided in prior years; and
89(ii) provide educator salary adjustments to new employees.
90(b) Money appropriated for educator salary adjustments shall include money for the
91following employer-paid benefits:
92(i) retirement;
93(ii) worker's compensation;
94(iii) social security; and
95(iv) Medicare.
96   (7)(a) Subject to future budget constraints, the Legislature shall:
97(i) maintain the salary adjustments provided to school administrators in the 2007-08
98school year; and
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99(ii) provide salary adjustments for new school administrators in the same amount as
100provided for existing school administrators.
101      (b) The appropriation provided for educator salary adjustments described in this section
102shall include salary adjustments for school administrators as specified in Subsection
103(7)(a).
104      (c) In distributing and awarding salary adjustments for school administrators, the state
105board, a school district, a charter school, each regional education service agency, or
106the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind shall comply with the requirements for
107the distribution and award of educator salary adjustments as provided in Subsections
108(3) and (4).
109Section 2. Effective Date.
110  This bill takes effect on July 1, 2026.
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