By Dutton                                       H.B. No. 2237

      75R8231 ESH-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the salaries of public school teachers and

 1-3     administrators.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 21.402(a), (e), and (f), Education Code,

 1-6     are amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection [(d) or] (e), a school

 1-8     district must pay each classroom teacher or full-time librarian not

 1-9     less than the minimum annual [monthly] salary, based on the

1-10     employee's level of experience, determined by the following

1-11     formula:

1-13     where:

1-14           "MS" is the minimum annual [monthly] salary; and

1-15           "SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection

1-16     (c)[;]

1-17           ["FSP" is the amount appropriated in the General

1-18     Appropriations Act for the fiscal year for the Foundation School

1-19     Program, as determined by the commissioner as provided by

1-20     Subsection (b); and]

1-21           ["ADA" is the total estimated average daily attendance, as

1-22     defined by Section 42.005, used for purposes of the General

1-23     Appropriations Act for the fiscal year].

1-24           (e)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a teacher or librarian

 2-1     who received a career ladder supplement on August 31, 1993, is

 2-2     entitled to at least the same gross annual [monthly] salary the

 2-3     teacher or librarian received for the 1994-1995 school year as long

 2-4     as the teacher or librarian is employed by the same district.

 2-5           (f)  In this section, "gross annual [monthly] salary" must

 2-6     include the amount a teacher or librarian received that

 2-7     represented a career ladder salary supplement under Section 16.057,

 2-8     as that section existed January 1, 1993.

 2-9           SECTION 2.  Section 21.401(b), Education Code, is amended to

2-10     read as follows:

2-11           (b)  An educator employed under a 10-month contract must

2-12     provide a minimum [number] of 185 days of service [as determined by

2-13     the following formula:]

2-15     [where:]

2-16           ["MDS" is the minimum number of days of service;]

2-17           ["R1" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402

2-18     for the fiscal year; and]

2-19           ["R2" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402

2-20     for the 1994-1995 school year].

2-21           SECTION 3.  Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is

2-22     amended by adding Section 21.4031 to read as follows:

2-23           Sec. 21.4031.  MAXIMUM SALARY OF ADMINISTRATORS.  (a)  A

2-24     school district may not pay a person employed as an administrator,

2-25     other than a superintendent, an annual salary that exceeds 140

2-26     percent of the minimum annual salary to which the person would be

2-27     entitled under Section 21.402 if the person were a classroom

 3-1     teacher or librarian.

 3-2           (b)  A school district may not pay a person employed as a

 3-3     superintendent an annual salary that exceeds 140 percent of the

 3-4     maximum annual salary to which the person would be entitled under

 3-5     Subsection (a) if the person were an administrator other than a

 3-6     superintendent.

 3-7           SECTION 4.  Section 30.102(b), Education Code, is amended to

 3-8     read as follows:

 3-9           (b)  A classroom teacher or full-time librarian employed by

3-10     the commission is entitled to receive as a minimum salary the

3-11     annual [monthly] salary rate specified by Section 21.402.  A

3-12     classroom teacher or full-time librarian may be paid, from funds

3-13     appropriated to the commission, a salary in excess of the minimum

3-14     specified by that section, but the salary may not exceed the rate

3-15     of pay for a similar position in the public schools of an adjacent

3-16     school district.

3-17           SECTION 5.  Sections 21.401(b-1) and (c), Education Code, and

3-18     Sections 21.402(b) and (d), Education Code, are repealed.

3-19           SECTION 6.  (a)  Sections 21.402 and 30.102, Education Code,

3-20     as amended by this Act, apply beginning with the 1997-1998 school

3-21     year.

3-22           (b)  Section 21.4031, Education Code, as added by this Act,

3-23     applies beginning with the 1997-1998 school year, except that a

3-24     school district is not required to reduce the salary of a

3-25     superintendent who is entitled to a salary greater than the maximum

3-26     provided by that section under a contract entered into before the

3-27     effective date of this Act.

 4-1           SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the

 4-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 4-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 4-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 4-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 4-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 4-7     passage, and it is so enacted.