87R5245 CXP-F
 
  By: Gates H.B. No. 1146
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to placement on the minimum salary schedule for certain
  public school career or technology education teachers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.403(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (b)  For each year of work experience required for
  certification in a career or technological field, up to a maximum of
  10 [two] years, [a] certified career or technology education
  teachers and persons issued a school district teaching permit
  under Section 21.055(d-1) are [teacher is] entitled to salary step
  credit as if the work experience were teaching experience.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2021.