By Hernandez                                          H.B. No. 2584
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a salary increase for certain employees of school
    1-3  districts and making an appropriation.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 16.056(c), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  SALARY SCHEDULE BY STEPS
    1-8              (1)  Effective through the 1993-94 school year, the
    1-9  minimum salaries for each step shall be:
   1-10   0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     10
   1-11  1700  1814  1928  2042  2156  2270  2384  2498  2612  2726  2840
   1-12              (2)  Effective with the 1994-95 school year, the
   1-13  minimum salaries for each step shall be:
   1-14    0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    10
   1-15  1785  1905  2024  2144  2264  2384  2503  2623  2743  2862  2982
   1-16        SECTION 2.  RESERVATION FOR PAY INCREASE For the 1994-95
   1-17  school year, the is reserved $65 in the basic allotment for the
   1-18  purpose of providing increases in actual salary schedules for
   1-19  teachers in all school district consistent with increases in
   1-20  minimum salaries provided by Section 16.056(c)(2) of this code.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The basic allotment for the 1994-95 school year
   1-22  as set in Sec. 16.101, Education Code, or the general
   1-23  appropriations act is hereby increased by $65.  There is hereby
    2-1  appropriated an additional $300 million in fiscal year 1994-95 to
    2-2  the Central Education Agency, for item A.1.1. Strategy:  FOUNDATION
    2-3  SCHOOL PROGRAM for the purpose of increasing the basic allotment in
    2-4  accordance with this Act.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.