By: Hunter, Todd H.B. No. 1389
73R4841 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appraisal of teachers and termination of the
1-3 teacher career ladder.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. The following provisions of the Education Code
1-6 are repealed:
1-7 (1) Subchapter E, Chapter 13; and
1-8 (2) Sections 13.0321(c) and 13.035(c).
1-9 SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 13, Education Code, is
1-10 amended by adding Section 13.914 to read as follows:
1-11 Sec. 13.914. TEACHER APPRAISAL. (a) Each school district
1-12 may adopt an appraisal process and performance criteria on which to
1-13 appraise the performance of teachers. A district may use the
1-14 appraisal process and performance criteria developed by the
1-15 commissioner of education under Subsection (b) of this section or,
1-16 after requesting and considering the advice of the district's
1-17 certified education personnel, may establish its own appraisal
1-18 process and performance criteria.
1-19 (b) The commissioner shall develop an appraisal process and
1-20 performance criteria on which to appraise the performance of
1-21 teachers. In developing the appraisal process and performance
1-22 criteria, the commissioner shall consider advice received at public
1-23 hearings. The commissioner shall hold one or more public hearings
1-24 in each regional education service center service area. In
2-1 addition to any other notice of a hearing the commissioner gives,
2-2 the commissioner shall give notice to certified education personnel
2-3 in each service area through each school district in the area.
2-4 SECTION 3. Section 16.057, Education Code, is amended to
2-5 read as follows:
2-6 Sec. 16.057. Career Ladder Salary Supplement. (a) Except
2-7 as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, each teacher who was
2-8 on level two, three, or four of a career ladder on or before July
2-9 1, 1993, is entitled to the following annual supplement in addition
2-10 to the minimum salary set by this subchapter for any school year in
2-11 which the teacher teaches in a school district in this state:
2-12 Level 2 . . . . . . . $2,000
2-13 Level 3 . . . . . . . $4,000
2-14 Level 4 . . . . . . . $6,000
2-15 (b) If the district pays more than the state minimum salary
2-16 prescribed by this subchapter, the teacher is entitled to the
2-17 career ladder supplement in addition to the amount otherwise paid
2-18 by the district for the teacher's step.
2-19 (c) If the allotment under Section 16.158 of this code that
2-20 is designated for support of the career ladder will not fully fund
2-21 the supplements under this section,<:>
2-22 <(1)> the district may reduce the supplements to not
2-23 less than the following:
2-24 Level 2 . . . . . . . $1,500
2-25 Level 3 . . . . . . . $3,000
2-26 Level 4 . . . . . . . $4,500
2-27 <or;>
3-1 <(2) provide for stricter performance criteria than
3-2 that provided under Section 13.302 of this code, subject to the
3-3 approval of the State Board of Education; or>
3-4 <(3) take action under both Subdivisions (1) and (2)
3-5 of this subsection.>
3-6 SECTION 4. Section 16.158(c), Education Code, is amended to
3-7 read as follows:
3-8 (c) From the funds designated for that purpose, the district
3-9 shall supplement the salary of each teacher who was above level one
3-10 on the career ladder on or before July 1, 1993. The district shall
3-11 decide the amount of supplement to be provided at each career
3-12 ladder level.
3-13 SECTION 5. Section 13.912(a), Education Code, is amended to
3-14 read as follows:
3-15 (a) A school district may not deny a teacher a salary bonus
3-16 or similar compensation given in whole or in part on the basis of
3-17 teacher attendance <or a career ladder advancement> because of the
3-18 teacher's absence from school for observance of a religious holy
3-19 day.
3-20 SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
3-21 school year.
3-22 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
3-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-1 passage, and it is so enacted.