Bill Text: NJ A845 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits the salaries of school business administrators, superintendents of schools, and assistant superintendents of schools to the salary of the Commissioner of Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A845 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A845-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
215th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ALISON LITTELL MCHOSE
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
Assemblyman GARY R. CHIUSANO
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Limits the salaries of school business administrators, superintendents of schools, and assistant superintendents of schools to the salary of the Commissioner of Education.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning the salaries of school district administrators and amending and supplementing chapter 17 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.18A:17-14.1 is amended to read as follows:
18A:17-14.1. A board or the boards of two or more districts may, under rules and regulations prescribed by the State board, appoint a school business administrator by a majority vote of all the members of the board, define his duties, which may include serving as secretary of one of the boards, and fix his salary, which shall not be greater than the salary of the Commissioner of Education as fixed by law, whenever the necessity for such appointment shall have been agreed to by the county superintendent of schools or the county superintendents of schools of the counties in which the districts are situate and approved by the commissioner and the State board.
Nothing in P.L.1996, c.111 (C.18A:17-24.1 et al.) shall prohibit a school district from subcontracting its school business administrator to another school district pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1973, c.208 (C.40:8A-1 et al.), in which case credit toward tenure acquisition shall accrue only in the primary district of employment.
(cf: P.L.2007, c.63, s.36)
2. N.J.S.18A:17-19 is amended to read as follows:
18A:17-19. The board or boards of education employing a superintendent or assistant superintendent of schools shall fix the salaries of the superintendent and assistant superintendent of schools [and the], which shall not be greater than the salary of the Commissioner of Education as fixed by law. The salary of a superintendent shall not be reduced during his term of office.
(cf: N.J.S.18A:17-19)
3. (New section) The limit on salary set forth in N.J.S.18A:17-14.1 shall not affect an employment contract entered into by a board of education with a school business administrator prior to the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
4. (New section) The limit on salary set forth in N.J.S.18A:17-19 shall not affect an employment contract entered into by a board of education with a superintendent of schools or an assistant superintendent of schools prior to the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
5. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that the salaries of school business administrators, superintendents of schools, and assistant superintendents of schools may be not greater than the salary of the Commissioner of Education.
The New Jersey Commission of Investigation found in its March 2006 report entitled "Taxpayers Beware: What You Don't Know Can Cost You - An Inquiry Into Questionable and Hidden Compensation for Public School Administrators" that excessive salaries provided to public school administrators were costing unsuspecting New Jersey taxpayers millions of dollars. The release of this report was met with widespread outrage in regard to the negative impact on local property taxes that was the ultimate effect of such exorbitant salaries. This bill addresses that concern by limiting the salary that may be paid by a board of education to a school administrator.
