1-1           By:  Zaffirini                                   S.B. No. 280

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 1997; January 27, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;

 1-4     February 17, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-6     February 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 280                By:  Zaffirini

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the experience credited in placing a public school

1-11     teacher or librarian on the state minimum salary schedule.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 21.403, Education Code,

1-14     is amended to read as follows:

1-15           (c)  The commissioner, in consultation with the State Board

1-16     for Educator Certification, shall adopt rules for determining the

1-17     experience for which a teacher or librarian is to be given credit

1-18     in placing the teacher or librarian on the minimum salary schedule.

1-19     A [In determining the placement of a teacher or librarian on the

1-20     minimum salary schedule, a] district shall credit the teacher or

1-21     librarian [person] for each year of experience without regard to

1-22     whether the years are consecutive.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The commissioner of education shall adopt rules

1-24     for determining the experience for which a public school teacher or

1-25     librarian is to be given credit in placing the teacher or librarian

1-26     on the state minimum salary schedule, as required by Subsection

1-27     (c), Section 21.403, Education Code, as amended by this Act, not

1-28     later than January 1, 1998.

1-29           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-34     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-35     passage, and it is so enacted.

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