By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1893

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the number of days of service required of certain

 1-2     educators for the school year.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 21.401, Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 21.401.  MINIMUM SERVICE REQUIRED.  (a)  A contract

 1-7     between a school district and an educator must be for a minimum of

 1-8     10 months' service.

 1-9           (b)  An educator employed under a 10-month contract must

1-10     provide a minimum number of days of service as determined by the

1-11     following formula:

1-13     where:

1-14           "MDS" is the minimum number of days of service;

1-15           "R1" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402

1-16     for the fiscal year; and

1-17           "R2" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402

1-18     for the 1996-1997 [1994-1995] school year.

1-19           (b-1)  Subsection (b) applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-20     school year.  This subsection expires January 1, 1998.

1-21           (c)  The result of the formula prescribed by Subsection (b)

1-22     shall be rounded to the nearest whole number.

1-23           (d)  The commissioner, as provided by Section 25.081(b), may

 2-1     reduce the number of days of service required by this section.  A

 2-2     reduction by the commissioner does not reduce an educator's salary.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its

2-10     terms, and it is so enacted.