§421.4. Salary increases for noninstructional school personnel
A. The salary increase funded by Act No. 12 of the 1991 Regular Session of the
Legislature for noninstructional school employees, including teacher aides and
paraprofessionals, school bus operators, food service workers, including school lunch
employees provided a pay increase pursuant to Act No. 713 of the 1972 Regular Session of
the Legislature, school nurses, clerical, custodial, and maintenance personnel, and any other
employees of a city or parish school board or unclassified noninstructional employees of the
Louisiana School for the Deaf, the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, and the
Special School District who are not required to hold a teacher's certificate as a condition of
employment, shall continue to be paid to such employees from year to year. The legislature
annually shall appropriate sufficient funds for this purpose and shall make such funds
available to the employing school boards.
B. Any increase in the expenditures of a city or parish school board or of the State
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education resulting from a state-mandated increase in
the salaries of noninstructional school personnel shall be fully funded by the state. Such
funds shall be made available to the respective school boards. For purposes of this
Subsection, noninstructional school personnel shall mean teacher aides and
paraprofessionals, school bus operators, food service workers, school nurses, clerical,
custodial, and maintenance personnel, and any other employee of a parish or city school
board or unclassified noninstructional employee of the Louisiana School for the Deaf, the
Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, and the Special School District who is not
required to hold a teacher's certificate as a condition of employment.
Acts 1992, No. 199, §1, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 260, §1, eff. July 1, 1993;
Acts 2014, No. 811, §8, eff. June 23, 2014; Acts 2017, No. 335, §1; Acts 2019, No. 411, §1,
eff. June 20, 2019.