By:  Zaffirini                                         S.B. No. 280

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       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, in consultation with the State Board

 1-7     for Educator Certification, shall adopt rules for determining the

 1-8     experience for which a teacher or librarian is to be given credit

 1-9     in placing the teacher or librarian on the minimum salary schedule.

1-10     A [In determining the placement of a teacher or librarian on the

1-11     minimum salary schedule, a] district shall credit the teacher or

1-12     librarian [person] for each year of experience without regard to

1-13     whether the years are consecutive.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The commissioner of education shall adopt rules

1-15     for determining the experience for which a public school teacher or

1-16     librarian is to be given credit in placing the teacher or librarian

1-17     on the state minimum salary schedule, as required by Subsection

1-18     (c), Section 21.403, Education Code, as amended by this Act, not

1-19     later than January 1, 1998.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

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

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.

 2-4                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1

 2-5           Amend S.B. No. 280 in Section 1 of the bill, in amended

 2-6     Section 21.403(c), Education Code (Senate Engrossment, page 1,

 2-7     lines 6 and 7), by striking ", in consultation with the State Board

 2-8     for Educator Certification,".

 2-9                                                               Culberson