Title 17. Education

Chapter 2. Teachers and Employees

Part I. General Provisions

17:419.2      Extra compensation for school support personnel

A. All noncertificated support personnel employed by city, parish, or other local public school systems and noncertificated, unclassified support personnel employed by the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the Jimmy D. Long, Sr. Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, the Southern University Laboratory School, the Louisiana State University Laboratory School, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the special school districts, the office of juvenile justice in the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and nonpublic lunchroom employees eligible for state salary supplements shall be paid by the state extra compensation as provided in Subsection B of this Section. The annual state extra compensation shall be paid only to those support personnel not paid exclusively from federal funds. 

B. The annual state extra compensation shall be allocated on a per employee basis with an average employer retirement contribution rate of eight percent. The total allocation per employee shall be five hundred fourteen dollars with a minimum payment to each employee of four hundred seventy-six dollars. The extra compensation for part-time employees shall be a prorated amount based on the time worked by the part-time employee compared to the time worked by a full-time employee. 

C. The amount to be distributed to each city, parish, or other local public school system and each of the other entities provided in Subsection A of this Section shall be no greater than the amount distributed in Fiscal Year 2002-2003 from the funds appropriated in Act No. 13 of the 2002 Regular Session of the Legislature. 

D. In any year in which the Minimum Foundation Program formula adopted by the legislature contains the extra compensation paid by the state for support personnel employed by city, parish, or other local public school systems, extra compensation for such personnel as provided in this Section shall not be in force and effect for such year and for any succeeding year in which such formula remains in effect. 

Added by Acts 2003, No. 1143, § 1, eff. July 1, 2003. Amended by Acts 2008, No. 565, § 2; Acts 2017, No. 374, § 2, eff. June 23, 2017; Acts 2019, No. 411, § 1, eff. June 20, 2019.