By: Bivins S.B. No. 1893
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the length of school year.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 21.401, Education Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 21.401. Minimum Service Required. (A) A contract
1-6 between a school district and an educator must be for a minimum of
1-7 10 months' service.
1-8 (B) An educator employed under a 10-month
1-9 contract must provide a minimum number of days of service as
1-10 determined by the following formula:
1-12 "M D S" is the minimum number of days of service;
1-13 "R1" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402
1-14 for the 1996-1997 [1994-1995] school year.
1-15 (c) The result of the formula prescribed by Subsection (b)
1-16 shall be rounded to the nearest whole number.
1-17 (d) The commissioner as provided by Section 25.081(b), may
1-18 reduce the number of days of service required by this section. A
1-19 reduction by the commissioner does not reduce an educator's salary.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.