By West S.B. No. 1452
76R6487 KKA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to minimum salaries for full-time registered nurses
1-3 employed by school districts.
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 or full-time registered nurse not less than the minimum monthly
1-14 salary, based on the employee's level of experience, determined by
1-15 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) A teacher, [or] librarian, or registered nurse shall
2-7 advance one step on the minimum salary schedule under Section
2-8 21.402 for each year of experience as a teacher, [or] librarian, or
2-9 registered nurse until step 20 is reached.
2-10 (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules for determining the
2-11 experience for which a teacher, [or] librarian, or registered nurse
2-12 is to be given credit in placing the teacher, [or] librarian, or
2-13 registered nurse on the minimum salary schedule. A district shall
2-14 credit the teacher, [or] librarian, or registered nurse for each
2-15 year of experience without regard to whether the years are
2-16 consecutive.
2-17 SECTION 4. Section 30.102(b), Education Code, is amended to
2-18 read as follows:
2-19 (b) A classroom teacher, [or] full-time librarian, or
2-20 full-time registered nurse employed by the commission is entitled
2-21 to receive as a minimum salary the monthly salary rate specified by
2-22 Section 21.402. A classroom teacher, [or] full-time librarian, or
2-23 full-time registered nurse may be paid, from funds appropriated to
2-24 the commission, a salary in excess of the minimum specified by that
2-25 section, but the salary may not exceed the rate of pay for a
2-26 similar position in the public schools of an adjacent school
2-27 district.
3-1 SECTION 5. (a) This Act applies beginning with the
3-2 1999-2000 school year.
3-3 (b) In placing a full-time registered nurse on the minimum
3-4 salary schedule in accordance with Sections 21.402 and 21.403,
3-5 Education Code, as amended by this Act, a school district shall
3-6 credit the registered nurse for each year of experience in
3-7 accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner of education,
3-8 regardless of whether the experience was gained before, during, or
3-9 after the 1999-2000 school year.
3-10 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-16 passage, and it is so enacted.