By Hernandez, et al. H.B. No. 786
74R3886 KKA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to compensation for school district personnel.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 16.056, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsections (a)-(c) and adding Subsections (c-1)-(c-4) to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) School district personnel who are qualified for and
1-8 employed in positions described in Subsection (d) of this section
1-9 shall be paid not less than the monthly base salary, plus
1-10 increments for teaching experience, set forth in Subsections
1-11 <Subsection> (c) and (c-1) of this section, or greater amounts
1-12 provided by appropriation.
1-13 (b) Each individual shall advance one step per each year of
1-14 experience until step 11 <10> is reached. For each year, up to a
1-15 maximum of two years, of work experience required for certification
1-16 in a vocational field, a vocational teacher who is certified in
1-17 that field is entitled to salary step credit as if the work
1-18 experience were teaching experience.
1-19 (c) The salary schedule by steps for the 1996-1997 school
1-20 year is:
1-21 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1-22 2300 2414 2528 2642 2756 2870 2984 3098 3212 3326 3440 3554
1-23 <SALARY SCHEDULE BY STEPS>
1-24 <0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10>
2-1 <1700 1814 1928 2042 2156 2270 2384 2498 2612 2726 2840>
2-2 (c-1) For each school year after 1996-1997, the commissioner
2-3 of education shall determine the salary schedule, not later than
2-4 June 15 preceding the school year for which the salary schedule
2-5 will apply, by:
2-6 (1) determining the increase in total state and local
2-7 expenditures on public education during the school year in which
2-8 the computations under this subsection are made over the preceding
2-9 school year's expenditures;
2-10 (2) multiplying the increase by 60 percent;
2-11 (3) dividing that product by the number of full-time
2-12 teacher equivalents employed by public schools during the school
2-13 year in which the computations under this subsection are made;
2-14 (4) rounding that quotient to the nearest 10;
2-15 (5) dividing the rounded quotient by 10; and
2-16 (6) adding that quotient to the salary required for
2-17 each step of the schedule for the preceding school year.
2-18 (c-2) The commissioner of education shall, not later than
2-19 July 1 of each year, notify each school district of the salary
2-20 schedule established for the following school year.
2-21 (c-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the salary schedule by
2-22 steps for school district personnel who are qualified for and
2-23 employed in positions described in Subsection (d) for the 1995-1996
2-24 school year is:
2-25 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2-26 2300 2414 2528 2642 2756 2870 2984 3098 3212 3326 3440
2-27 Each person who is qualified for and employed in a position
3-1 described in Subsection (d) for the 1995-1996 school year by a
3-2 school district that employed the person in the 1994-1995 school
3-3 year in the same position and who received a salary in excess of
3-4 the minimum salary shall be paid a monthly salary not less than
3-5 $500 greater than the monthly salary received by the person in the
3-6 1994-1995 school year. This subsection expires September 1, 1996.
3-7 (c-4) The legislature shall increase the basic allotment to
3-8 which a school district is entitled under Section 16.101 to an
3-9 amount sufficient to fund not less than 60 percent of the salary
3-10 increases provided by Subsections (c), (c-1), and (c-3).
3-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-17 passage, and it is so enacted.