By Smith H.B. No. 2041
75R7237 ESH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the inclusion of compensation for teaching driver
1-3 education for purposes of contributions and benefits under the
1-4 Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 822.201(c), Government Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (c) Excluded from salary and wages are expense payments,
1-9 allowances, payments for unused vacation or sick leave, maintenance
1-10 or other nonmonetary compensation, fringe benefits, deferred
1-11 compensation other than as provided by Subsection (b)(3),
1-12 compensation that is not made pursuant to a valid employment
1-13 agreement, [payments received in the 1995-1996 or a subsequent
1-14 school year for teaching a driver education and traffic safety
1-15 course,] and any compensation not described in Subsection (b).
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-17 school year.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.