1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the manner in which salaries are paid to certain

 1-3     employees of the Texas School for the Deaf.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 30.055(b), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The governing board of the school may enter into an

 1-8     employment contract with any employee who provides, or supervises

 1-9     any employee who provides, direct and regular educational services

1-10     to students or who provides other professional, educational

1-11     services.  Each teacher shall be employed under a term contract as

1-12     provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 21.  An employee employed under a

1-13     contract under this subsection:

1-14                 (1)  shall be paid in accordance with a salary

1-15     structure adopted by the superintendent with the concurrence of the

1-16     board that provides salaries equal, on a daily-rate basis, to

1-17     salaries paid to employees employed in comparable positions by the

1-18     Austin Independent School District;

1-19                 (2)  is not eligible for longevity pay under Subchapter

1-20     D, Chapter 659, Government Code, and is not entitled to a paid day

1-21     off from work on any national or state holiday;

1-22                 (3)  is eligible for sick leave accrual under the

1-23     General Appropriations Act in each month in which at least one day

1-24     of the month is included in the term of the employment contract and

 2-1     in any other month in which work is performed or paid leave is

 2-2     taken;

 2-3                 (4)  may be permitted by the board to use a maximum of

 2-4     four days per contract term of accrued sick leave for personal

 2-5     reasons as designated by the board but the number of sick leave

 2-6     days not used for personal reasons during a contract term may not

 2-7     be carried forward to a subsequent contract term for use as

 2-8     personal leave;

 2-9                 (5)  shall [may be permitted by the board to] be paid

2-10     the salary designated in the employment contract in 12 equal

2-11     monthly installments if the employee chooses to be paid in that

2-12     manner;  and

2-13                 (6)  shall work the hours established by the board.

2-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 932 was passed by the House on May

         10, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 932 was passed by the Senate on May

         21, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor