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.