AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the experience credited in placing a public school

 1-2     teacher or librarian on the state minimum salary schedule.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 21.403, Education Code,

 1-5     is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for determining the

 1-7     experience for which a teacher or librarian is to be given credit

 1-8     in placing the teacher or librarian on the minimum salary schedule.

 1-9     A [In determining the placement of a teacher or librarian on the

1-10     minimum salary schedule, a] district shall credit the teacher or

1-11     librarian [person] for each year of experience without regard to

1-12     whether the years are consecutive.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The commissioner of education shall adopt rules

1-14     for determining the experience for which a public school teacher or

1-15     librarian is to be given credit in placing the teacher or librarian

1-16     on the state minimum salary schedule, as required by Subsection

1-17     (c), Section 21.403, Education Code, as amended by this Act, not

1-18     later than January 1, 1998.

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,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 280 passed the Senate on

         February 19, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and

         that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 26, 1997, by

         the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 280 passed the House, with

         amendment, on May 23, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 145,

         Nays 0, two present not voting.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor