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title: HB 333. Education; require that the state minimum salary schedule shall be updated each year
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cite_as: HB 333, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.)
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date: 2025-02-11
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bill_number: HB 333
session: 2025-2026 Regular Session
session_slug: 2025-2026
chamber: House
bill_type: bill
status_date: 2025-02-06
last_action: House Second Readers
sponsors:
- Tangie Herring
- Phil Olaleye
- Lisa Campbell
- David Wilkerson
- Karen Bennett
- Spencer Frye
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- teacher pay
- education funding
- school personnel salaries
- state minimum salary schedule
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# HB 333. Education; require that the state minimum salary schedule shall be updated each year
## Text
House Bill 333
By: Representatives Herring of the 145th, Olaleye of the 59th, Campbell of the 35th, Wilkerson
of the 38th, Bennett of the 94th, and others
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Code Section 20-2-212 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
salary schedules for professionals in elementary and secondary education, so as to require
that the state minimum salary schedule shall be updated each year; to provide that such
updates shall correspond to annual inflation and deflation rates; to provide for related
matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Code Section 20-2-212 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to salary
schedules for professionals in elementary and secondary education, is amended by revising
subsection (c) and by adding a new subsection to read as follows:
"(c) A local unit of administration shall pay beginning classroom teachers the first salary
payment for the number of days worked at the end of the first month of the school year in
which service is rendered.
(d) The State Board of Education shall develop rules and procedures for implementing this
subsection by July 1, 2001 2025. Such rules and procedures shall provide for, at a
minimum, the following:
(1) That the minimum salary schedule required by this Code section shall be updated
each year by December 1; and
(2) That each update provided for in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall reflect the
effect of annual inflation or deflation for the immediately preceding calendar year in
accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Education, which
rules and regulations may use for this purpose the Consumer Price Index as reported by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor or any other
similar index established by the federal government, if the State Board of Education
determines that such federal index reflects the effect of inflation and deflation on
certificated professional personnel."
SECTION 2.
This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2025.
SECTION 3.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
## Summaries written by Georgia Commons
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House Bill 333 would require Georgia's minimum salary schedule for teachers and other certified school employees to be updated every year to reflect inflation or deflation, instead of staying fixed until lawmakers act.
### Plain-language summary
Georgia sets a statewide minimum salary schedule for teachers and other certified professional school personnel under O.C.G.A. § 20-2-212. Currently that schedule only changes when the General Assembly or State Board of Education acts, with no automatic yearly adjustment tied to cost-of-living changes.
House Bill 333 would require the State Board of Education to update the minimum salary schedule every year by December 1. The update would have to reflect inflation or deflation from the previous calendar year, measured using the Consumer Price Index from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics or a similar federal index, as long as the State Board finds that index accurately reflects inflation's effect on school employees. The bill also updates a reference date in current law from 2001 to 2025 for when the State Board must have its implementing rules in place. If passed, the law would take effect July 1, 2025.
### What it does
- Requires the State Board of Education to update the state minimum salary schedule for teachers and certified school personnel every year by December 1.
- Ties each annual update to the rate of inflation or deflation measured over the prior calendar year.
- Allows the State Board to use the federal Consumer Price Index or a similar federal index to calculate the adjustment, if it finds the index reflects inflation's effect on school employees.
- Updates the deadline in current law for the State Board to adopt implementing rules, changing it from 2001 to July 1, 2025.
- Sets the new requirements to take effect July 1, 2025.
### Who it affects
Teachers and other certified professional personnel in Georgia's public elementary and secondary schools, local school districts that pay salaries based on the state minimum schedule, and the State Board of Education, which must write the rules and calculate the yearly updates.
### Why it matters
If enacted, teachers and other certified school staff would see their state minimum pay levels adjusted annually for inflation instead of remaining flat until lawmakers separately raise them, which could affect how salaries keep pace with the cost of living from year to year.
### Key provisions
- Section 1 amends O.C.G.A. § 20-2-212 by adding a new subsection requiring the State Board of Education to update the minimum salary schedule each year by December 1.
- Section 1 requires each annual update to reflect inflation or deflation from the immediately preceding calendar year.
- Section 1 permits use of the federal Consumer Price Index or a similar federal index for calculating the adjustment, subject to the State Board's determination that it accurately measures inflation's effect on school personnel.
- Section 1 changes the deadline for the State Board to adopt implementing rules from July 1, 2001 to July 1, 2025.
- Section 2 sets the effective date of the Act as July 1, 2025.
- Section 3 repeals any conflicting laws.
## Status
- Status: Introduced (2025-02-06)
- Last action: House Second Readers (2025-02-11)
- Sponsors: Tangie Herring, Phil Olaleye, Lisa Campbell, David Wilkerson, Karen Bennett, Spencer Frye
- Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70063
> The history, votes, and amendments (129 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb333.md?full=1