By Uher                                         H.B. No. 1033

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to teacher salaries and days of service.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 21.4011 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 21.4011.  INCREASE IN SALARY FOR ADDITIONAL DAYS OF

 1-7     SERVICE.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, for

 1-8     each school year in which the minimum number of days of service

 1-9     under Section 21.401 is increased over the preceding school year, a

1-10     school district shall increase an educator's salary by an amount

1-11     equal to or greater than the educator's daily rate of pay for the

1-12     preceding school year multiplied by the number of days of the

1-13     increase in the minimum number of days of service.  For purposes of

1-14     this section, an educator's daily rate of pay is the quotient of

1-15     the educator's salary for a school year divided by the number of

1-16     service days for that year.

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-18     school year.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.