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78R8287 T

By:  Gutierrez                                                    H.B. No. 1999



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to compensation for public school classroom teachers and 
full-time public school librarians, counselors, and nurses for 
additional days of service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by 
amending Subsections (a) and (h) and adding Subsection (i) to read 
as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), (e), [or] (f), or 
(h), a school district must pay each classroom teacher, full-time 
librarian, full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, or 
full-time school nurse not less than the minimum monthly salary, 
based on the employee's level of experience, determined by the 
following formula:

MS = SF X FS                                                                  
	where:                                                                         
	"MS" is the minimum monthly salary;                                            
	"SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection 
(c); and        
	"FS" is the amount, as determined by the commissioner under 
Subsection (b), of state and local funds per weighted student 
available to a district eligible to receive state assistance under 
Section 42.302 with an enrichment tax rate, as defined by Section 
42.302, equal to the maximum rate authorized under Section 42.303.
	(h)  The minimum monthly salary of a classroom teacher, 
full-time librarian, full-time counselor certified under 
Subchapter B, or full-time school nurse in a school district that 
requires more than the minimum number of days of service required 
under Section 21.401 is an amount equal to the minimum monthly 
salary determined under this section multiplied by a fraction, the 
numerator of which is the number of days of service required under 
Section 21.401 plus the number of additional days required by the 
district and the denominator of which is the minimum number of days 
of service required under Section 21.401.
	(i)  In this section, "gross monthly salary" must include the 
amount a teacher or librarian received that represented a career 
ladder salary supplement under Section 16.057, as that section 
existed January 1, 1993.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2003 school 
year.