By Bailey                                        H.B. No. 431

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to limits on the compensation and employment of school

 1-3     district administrators.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 21.4031 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 21.4031.  LIMIT ON ADMINISTRATOR COMPENSATION.  A school

 1-8     district may not pay an administrator compensation that exceeds

 1-9     five times the lowest amount of compensation the district pays a

1-10     classroom teacher.

1-11           SECTION 2.  Subchapter D, Chapter 42, Education Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Section 42.202 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 42.202.  LIMIT ON ADMINISTRATOR EMPLOYMENT.  (a)  A

1-14     school district may not employ a number of administrators that

1-15     exceeds a ratio of one administrator for each 12 teachers employed

1-16     by the district.

1-17           (a-1)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 1997-1998,

1-18     1998-1999, and 1999-2000 school years, a school district may not

1-19     employ a number of administrators that exceeds a ratio of one

1-20     administrator for each 11 teachers employed by the district.  This

1-21     subsection expires September 1, 2001.

1-22           (b)  For purposes of this section:

1-23                 (1)  an administrator who teaches one or more classes

1-24     is counted as one-half an administrator and is not counted as a

 2-1     teacher; and

 2-2                 (2)  a counselor or librarian is not counted as either

 2-3     a teacher or an administrator.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

 2-5     school year.

 2-6           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-11     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-12     passage, and it is so enacted.