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.