(a) The state Budget Officer shall allocate to the State Board of Education, the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Board of Youth Services School District, the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and the Board of Trustees of the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science for disbursement to the employees thereof funds based on the criteria established in this section. It is not the intent of this section to make appropriations, but the appropriations required by this section shall be made in the annual budget act for the public schools and colleges for the designated fiscal years.

(1) CERTIFICATED PERSONNEL (K-12). For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2000, and each year thereafter, each step and cell on the State Minimum Salary Schedule contained in the annual budget act for the public schools shall be increased by the amounts below in addition to the amounts contained in the State Minimum Salary Schedule for the 1999-2000 annual budget act for the public schools as required and provided by Sections 16-6B-8 and 16-13-231. For fiscal year 2000-2001, the State Minimum Salary Schedule shall reflect the following percentage increases:

(2) EDUCATION SUPPORT PERSONNEL (K-12). A four percent salary increase shall be paid to each public education support worker and adult bus driver employed for the 2000-2001 fiscal year in addition to the salary received during the 1999-2000 fiscal year, except employees covered under the state Merit System at the Department of Youth Services School District. Each governing body of authority shall establish and maintain a salary schedule for each class and type of employee and each step of each salary schedule shall be increased to reflect a four percent pay increase which shall be given to the person employed for the 2000-2001 fiscal year and each year employed thereafter. A separate salary schedule shall be established and maintained for each job. No salary increase or state-provided fringe benefits for any lunchroom worker shall be paid from lunchroom sales or from any other aspect of the Child Nutrition Program. Salary increases provided herein and state-provided fringe benefits are funded from the annual budget act for the public schools and shall not be taken from the Child Nutrition Program.

(3) AIDB. For the fiscal year 2000-2001, employees at the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind shall receive pay increases which shall be in excess of their salaries received during the 1999-2000 fiscal year. The increases shall be as follows:

a. Certificated. The salary schedule for certificated employees shall be revised to reflect at least the following amount of raises:

b. Support. A four percent salary increase shall be given to each support worker employed.

c. Miscellaneous Requirements. The board shall establish and maintain a salary schedule for each class and type of employee and each step of each salary schedule shall be increased to reflect the pay increases above which shall be given to each person employed for the 2000-2001 fiscal year and each year employed thereafter. The raises contained in this subsection shall be paid to each employee. A separate salary schedule shall be established and maintained for each job.

(4) TWO-YEAR POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS. The State Board of Education shall revise all salary schedules of the two-year postsecondary institutions to reflect an increase of four percent for the 2000-2001 fiscal year. The pay increases shall be given to each person employed in addition to any step increase to which the employee is otherwise entitled. The Postsecondary Education Department shall take proper steps to ensure that employees on all salary schedules are given full credit for prior work experience in the public schools and colleges, and shall take care to ensure proper placements on the salary schedules. Placement on the revised salary schedules shall be in accordance with the employee's length of service in public education. No pay increase shall be given to any two-year postsecondary employee in excess of four percent, except as specifically provided in this section. Every employee on salary schedules C-3 shall receive at least a four percent cost-of-living adjustment.

(b) Miscellaneous provisions. The following provisions are hereby established:

(1) FISCAL YEAR. All salaries and salary increases which are established by the Legislature or authorized by the State Board of Education shall be paid in full to each person employed before the end of the applicable fiscal year as defined in Section 16-1-1, as amended.

(2) EXTENDED WORK. Public school employees on contracts which extend beyond 182 days shall be given a pro rata salary increment for each day or partial day of work extending beyond 182 days.

(3) LOCAL INCREMENT. Any cost-of-living adjustment and/or increase on the State Minimum Salary Schedule for teachers as provided in this section shall be exclusive of any local pay increase granted or due to teachers under provisions of the local salary schedule. Any cost-of-living adjustment and/or pay increase required by this section for public school support personnel shall be in addition to any pay increase granted or due to the employees under provisions of the local salary schedules.

(4) REDUCED PAY. No employee shall be dismissed or have his or her work hours reduced or extended or have his or her salary reduced due to the provisions of any pay raise enacted by the Legislature or required by the State Board of Education.

(5) COMMUNITY EDUCATION. Each county and city board of education shall have the option to exclude from the provisions of this section any community education or school-sponsored child care or child enrichment program which is supplemental to the state-required educational program.

(6) LOCAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. The pay raise provisions of this section shall not apply to superintendents of education of any school system. Any pay increase given to the superintendent shall be by recorded vote of the governing board of authority.

(7) CAREER TECHNICAL PROGRAMS. There shall be no cutbacks or decreases in the Career Technical Programs of any board as a result of this or any preceding pay raise act of the Legislature. Neither the salaries nor the number of career technical employee positions are to be reduced or diminished in any manner or method as a result of the passage of this section or any prior act after the 1995 fiscal year granting pay increase to any employee of the board. It shall be strictly prohibited for any board or chief executive officer to take monies from the Career Technical Program to finance, in whole or in part, the programs or the salaries of the employees in the Career Technical Program of the board, and the State Board of Education shall take care to protect the viability of the Career Technical Programs of each board.