By Munoz                                                H.B. No. 78
       74R451 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the minimum salary of a public school teacher who was
    1-3  eligible for assignment to the career ladder.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 16.058(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, a teacher
    1-8  who was eligible for assignment <assigned> to a particular career
    1-9  ladder level under Subchapter E, Chapter 13, on August 31, 1993, is
   1-10  entitled to receive for <the 1993-1994 school year and> each school
   1-11  year <thereafter, as long as the teacher is employed by the same
   1-12  district,> a minimum salary equal to the teacher's base salary plus
   1-13  the <teacher's> career ladder supplement paid at that career ladder
   1-14  level for the 1992-1993 school year by the district that employed
   1-15  the teacher during that <in the 1992-1993> school year.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
   1-17  school year.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.