By: Luna S.B. No. 1415
97S0822/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the addition of certain professional school personnel
1-2 to the state minimum salary schedule.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 21.402. MINIMUM SALARY SCHEDULE FOR PROFESSIONAL
1-7 PERSONNEL [CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND FULL-TIME LIBRARIANS].
1-8 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or (e), a school district
1-9 must pay each professional employee as defined in Subsection (g)
1-10 [classroom teacher or full-time librarian] not less than the
1-11 minimum monthly salary, based on the employee's level of
1-12 experience, determined by the following formula:
1-14 where:
1-15 "MS" is the minimum monthly salary;
1-16 "SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection
1-17 (c);
1-18 "FSP" is the amount appropriated in the General
1-19 Appropriations Act for the fiscal year for the Foundation School
1-20 Program, as determined by the commissioner as provided by
1-21 Subsection (b); and
1-22 "ADA" is the total estimated average daily attendance, as
1-23 defined by Section 42.005, used for purposes of the General
2-1 Appropriations Act for the fiscal year.
2-2 (b) Not later than June 1 of each year, the commissioner
2-3 shall determine the amount appropriated for purposes of Chapter 42
2-4 for the state fiscal year beginning September 1. The commissioner
2-5 shall exclude from the determination:
2-6 (1) amounts designated solely for use in connection
2-7 with school facilities or for payment of principal of and interest
2-8 on bonds; and
2-9 (2) local funds received under Subchapter D, Chapter
2-10 41.
2-11 (c) The salary factors per step are as follows:
2-12 Years Experience 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
2-13 Salary Factor .8470 .8699 .8928 .9156 .9639 1.0122 1.0605
2-14 Years Experience 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
2-15 Salary Factor 1.1054 1.1477 1.1879 1.2256 1.2616 1.2955 1.3273
2-16 Years Experience 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and over
2-17 Salary Factor 1.3578 1.3862 1.4133 1.4387 1.4628 1.4857 1.5073
2-18 (d) If the minimum monthly salary determined under
2-19 Subsection (a) for a particular level of experience is less than
2-20 the minimum monthly salary for that level of experience in the
2-21 preceding year, the minimum monthly salary is the minimum monthly
2-22 salary for the preceding year.
2-23 (e) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a professional employee
2-24 [teacher or librarian] who received a career ladder supplement on
2-25 August 31, 1993, is entitled to at least the same gross monthly
2-26 salary the professional employee [teacher or librarian] received
2-27 for the 1994-1995 school year as long as the professisonal employee
3-1 [teacher or librarian] is employed by the same district.
3-2 (f) In this section, "gross monthly salary" must include the
3-3 amount a professional employee [teacher or librarian] received that
3-4 represented a career ladder salary supplement under Section 16.057,
3-5 as that section existed January 1, 1993.
3-6 (g) In this section, "professional employee" means an
3-7 administrator, a supervisor, a classroom teacher, a counselor, a
3-8 librarian, or another full-time professional employee who is
3-9 required to hold a certificate issued under Subchapter B, or a
3-10 nurse.
3-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.