By Maxey H.B. No. 1130
75R4926 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the accrual of sick leave by educators at the Texas
1-3 School for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Texas School for
1-4 the Deaf.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 30.024(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (b) The governing board of the school may enter into an
1-9 employment contract with any employee who provides, or supervises
1-10 any employee who provides, direct and regular educational services
1-11 to students or who provides other professional, educational
1-12 services. Each teacher shall be employed under a term contract as
1-13 provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 21. An employee employed under
1-14 a contract under this subsection:
1-15 (1) shall be paid in accordance with a salary
1-16 structure adopted by the superintendent with the concurrence of the
1-17 board that provides salaries equal, on a daily-rate basis, to
1-18 salaries paid to employees employed in comparable positions by the
1-19 Austin Independent School District;
1-20 (2) is not eligible for longevity pay under Subchapter
1-21 D, Chapter 659, Government Code, and is not entitled to a paid day
1-22 off from work on any national or state holiday;
1-23 (3) is entitled to [eligible for] sick leave accrual
1-24 under the General Appropriations Act at the rate of a full-time
2-1 state employee in each month in which at least one day of the month
2-2 is included in the term of the employment contract and in any other
2-3 month in which work is performed or paid leave is taken;
2-4 (4) may be permitted by the board to take paid time
2-5 off from work during the term of the employment contract for
2-6 personal reasons as designated by the board, but the paid time off
2-7 may not exceed three days per contract term and may not be carried
2-8 forward from one contract term to a subsequent contract term;
2-9 (5) may be permitted by the board to be paid the
2-10 salary designated in the employment contract in 12 equal monthly
2-11 installments; and
2-12 (6) shall work the hours established by the board.
2-13 SECTION 2. Section 30.055(b), Education Code, is amended to
2-14 read as follows:
2-15 (b) The governing board of the school may enter into an
2-16 employment contract with any employee who provides, or supervises
2-17 any employee who provides, direct and regular educational services
2-18 to students or who provides other professional, educational
2-19 services. Each teacher shall be employed under a term contract as
2-20 provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 21. An employee employed under a
2-21 contract under this subsection:
2-22 (1) shall be paid in accordance with a salary
2-23 structure adopted by the superintendent with the concurrence of the
2-24 board that provides salaries equal, on a daily-rate basis, to
2-25 salaries paid to employees employed in comparable positions by the
2-26 Austin Independent School District;
2-27 (2) is not eligible for longevity pay under Subchapter
3-1 D, Chapter 659, Government Code, and is not entitled to a paid day
3-2 off from work on any national or state holiday;
3-3 (3) is entitled to [eligible for] sick leave accrual
3-4 under the General Appropriations Act at the rate of a full-time
3-5 state employee in each month in which at least one day of the month
3-6 is included in the term of the employment contract and in any other
3-7 month in which work is performed or paid leave is taken;
3-8 (4) may be permitted by the board to use a maximum of
3-9 four days per contract term of accrued sick leave for personal
3-10 reasons as designated by the board but the number of sick leave
3-11 days not used for personal reasons during a contract term may not
3-12 be carried forward to a subsequent contract term for use as
3-13 personal leave;
3-14 (5) may be permitted by the board to be paid the
3-15 salary designated in the employment contract in 12 equal monthly
3-16 installments; and
3-17 (6) shall work the hours established by the board.
3-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.