1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 1893
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 18, 1997; March 25, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 7, 1997,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 7, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1893 By: Bivins
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the number of days of service required of certain
1-10 educators for the school year.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 21.401, Education Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 21.401. MINIMUM SERVICE REQUIRED. (a) A contract
1-15 between a school district and an educator must be for a minimum of
1-16 10 months' service.
1-17 (b) An educator employed under a 10-month contract must
1-18 provide a minimum number of days of service as determined by the
1-19 following formula:
1-21 where:
1-22 "MDS" is the minimum number of days of service;
1-23 "R1" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402
1-24 for the fiscal year; and
1-25 "R2" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402
1-26 for the 1996-1997 [1994-1995] school year.
1-27 (b-1) Subsection (b) applies beginning with the 1997-1998
1-28 school year. This subsection expires January 1, 1998.
1-29 (c) The result of the formula prescribed by Subsection (b)
1-30 shall be rounded to the nearest whole number.
1-31 (d) The commissioner, as provided by Section 25.081(b), may
1-32 reduce the number of days of service required by this section. A
1-33 reduction by the commissioner does not reduce an educator's salary.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-35 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
1-41 terms, and it is so enacted.
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