By Dutton H.B. No. 849
76R1684 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the salaries of public school teachers, librarians, and
1-3 administrators.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 21.402(a), (e), and (f), Education Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsection [(d) or] (e), a school
1-8 district must pay each classroom teacher or full-time librarian not
1-9 less than the minimum annual [monthly] salary, based on the
1-10 employee's level of experience, determined by the following
1-11 formula:
1-12 MS = SF X $50,000[(FSP/ADA)]
1-13 where:
1-14 "MS" is the minimum annual [monthly] salary; and
1-15 "SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection
1-16 (c)[;]
1-17 ["FSP" is the amount appropriated in the General
1-18 Appropriations Act for the fiscal year for the Foundation School
1-19 Program, as determined by the commissioner as provided by
1-20 Subsection (b); and]
1-21 ["ADA" is the total estimated average daily attendance, as
1-22 defined by Section 42.005, used for purposes of the General
1-23 Appropriations Act for the fiscal year].
1-24 (e) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a teacher or librarian
2-1 who received a career ladder supplement on August 31, 1993, is
2-2 entitled to at least the same gross annual [monthly] salary the
2-3 teacher or librarian received for the 1994-1995 school year as long
2-4 as the teacher or librarian is employed by the same district.
2-5 (f) In this section, "gross annual [monthly] salary" must
2-6 include the amount a teacher or librarian received that
2-7 represented a career ladder salary supplement under Section 16.057,
2-8 as that section existed January 1, 1993.
2-9 SECTION 2. Section 21.401(b), Education Code, is amended to
2-10 read as follows:
2-11 (b) An educator employed under a 10-month contract must
2-12 provide a minimum [number] of 187 days of service [as determined by
2-13 the following formula:]
2-14 [MDS = 185 + (0.33 X (R1 - R2)/(R 2/185) )]
2-15 [where:]
2-16 ["MDS" is the minimum number of days of service;]
2-17 ["R1" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402
2-18 for the fiscal year; and]
2-19 ["R2" is equal to FSP/ADA as determined under Section 21.402
2-20 for the 1996-1997 school year].
2-21 SECTION 3. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
2-22 amended by adding Section 21.4031 to read as follows:
2-23 Sec. 21.4031. MAXIMUM SALARY OF ADMINISTRATORS. (a) A
2-24 school district may not pay a person employed as an administrator,
2-25 other than a superintendent, an annual salary that exceeds 140
2-26 percent of the minimum annual salary to which the person would be
2-27 entitled under Section 21.402 if the person were a classroom
3-1 teacher or librarian.
3-2 (b) A school district may not pay a person employed as a
3-3 superintendent an annual salary that exceeds 140 percent of the
3-4 maximum annual salary to which the person would be entitled under
3-5 Subsection (a) if the person were an administrator other than a
3-6 superintendent.
3-7 SECTION 4. Section 30.102(b), Education Code, is amended to
3-8 read as follows:
3-9 (b) A classroom teacher or full-time librarian employed by
3-10 the commission is entitled to receive as a minimum salary the
3-11 annual [monthly] salary rate specified by Section 21.402. A
3-12 classroom teacher or full-time librarian may be paid, from funds
3-13 appropriated to the commission, a salary in excess of the minimum
3-14 specified by that section, but the salary may not exceed the rate
3-15 of pay for a similar position in the public schools of an adjacent
3-16 school district.
3-17 SECTION 5. Sections 21.401(b-1) and (c) and 21.402(a-1),
3-18 (a-2), (b), and (d), Education Code, are repealed.
3-19 SECTION 6. (a) Sections 21.402 and 30.102, Education Code,
3-20 as amended by this Act, apply beginning with the 1999-2000 school
3-21 year.
3-22 (b) Section 21.4031, Education Code, as added by this Act,
3-23 applies beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, except that a
3-24 school district is not required to reduce the salary of a
3-25 superintendent who is entitled to a salary greater than the maximum
3-26 provided by that section under a contract entered into before the
3-27 effective date of this Act.
4-1 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
4-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-7 passage, and it is so enacted.