By Lengefeld                                          H.B. No. 3160
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the minimum salary schedule for certain school district
 1-3     employees.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 21.402, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 21.402.  MINIMUM SALARY SCHEDULE [FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS
 1-8     AND FULL-TIME LIBRARIANS].
 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 21.402(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-10     read as follows:
1-11           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d) or (e), a school
1-12     district must pay each classroom teacher, [or] full-time librarian,
1-13     full-time counselor, or full-time registered nurse not less than
1-14     the minimum monthly salary, based on the employee's level of
1-15     experience, determined by the following formula:
1-16                             MS = SF X (FSP/ADA)
1-17     where:
1-18           "MS" is the minimum monthly salary;
1-19           "SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection
1-20     (c);
1-21           "FSP" is the amount appropriated in the General
1-22     Appropriations Act for the fiscal year for the Foundation School
1-23     Program, as determined by the commissioner as provided by
1-24     Subsection (b); and
 2-1           "ADA" is the total estimated average daily attendance, as
 2-2     defined by Section 42.005, used for purposes of the General
 2-3     Appropriations Act for the fiscal year.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  Sections 21.403(a) and (c), Education Code, are
 2-5     amended to read as follows:
 2-6           (a)  An employee to whom Section 21.402 applies [A teacher or
 2-7     librarian] shall advance one step on the minimum salary schedule
 2-8     under Section 21.402 for each year of experience [as a teacher or
 2-9     librarian] until step 20 is reached.
2-10           (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules for determining the
2-11     experience for which an employee [a teacher or librarian] is to be
2-12     given credit in placing the employee [teacher or librarian] on the
2-13     minimum salary schedule.  A district shall credit the employee
2-14     [teacher or librarian] for each year of experience without regard
2-15     to whether the years are consecutive.
2-16           SECTION 4.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-17     school year.
2-18           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24     passage, and it is so enacted.