1-1     By:  Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)               H.B. No. 932

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health

 1-4     and Human Services; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the manner in which salaries are paid to certain

 1-9     employees of the Texas School for the Deaf.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 30.055(b), Education Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           (b)  The governing board of the school may enter into an

1-14     employment contract with any employee who provides, or supervises

1-15     any employee who provides, direct and regular educational services

1-16     to students or who provides other professional, educational

1-17     services.  Each teacher shall be employed under a term contract as

1-18     provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 21.  An employee employed under a

1-19     contract under this subsection:

1-20                 (1)  shall be paid in accordance with a salary

1-21     structure adopted by the superintendent with the concurrence of the

1-22     board that provides salaries equal, on a daily-rate basis, to

1-23     salaries paid to employees employed in comparable positions by the

1-24     Austin Independent School District;

1-25                 (2)  is not eligible for longevity pay under Subchapter

1-26     D, Chapter 659, Government Code, and is not entitled to a paid day

1-27     off from work on any national or state holiday;

1-28                 (3)  is eligible for sick leave accrual under the

1-29     General Appropriations Act in each month in which at least one day

1-30     of the month is included in the term of the employment contract and

1-31     in any other month in which work is performed or paid leave is

1-32     taken;

1-33                 (4)  may be permitted by the board to use a maximum of

1-34     four days per contract term of accrued sick leave for personal

1-35     reasons as designated by the board but the number of sick leave

1-36     days not used for personal reasons during a contract term may not

1-37     be carried forward to a subsequent contract term for use as

1-38     personal leave;

1-39                 (5)  shall [may be permitted by the board to] be paid

1-40     the salary designated in the employment contract in 12 equal

1-41     monthly installments if the employee chooses to be paid in that

1-42     manner;  and

1-43                 (6)  shall work the hours established by the board.

1-44           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-49     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-50     passage, and it is so enacted.

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