By Munoz H.B. No. 79
74R434 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the minimum salary of a public school teacher formerly
1-3 on 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 assigned to a career ladder level under Subchapter E,
1-9 Chapter 13, on August 31, 1993, is entitled to receive for <the
1-10 1993-1994 school year and> each school year <thereafter, as long as
1-11 the teacher is employed by the same district,> a minimum salary
1-12 equal to the teacher's base salary plus the teacher's career ladder
1-13 supplement in the 1992-1993 school year.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
1-15 school year.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.