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Amend the Casteel amendment to CSHB 2 (amendment packet, page
171) by striking the text from page 1, line 2 of the amendment
through page 2, line 23 of the amendment and substituting the
following:
(1) On page 36, between lines 22 and 23, insert the
following:
Sec. 42.3131. USE OF CERTAIN REVENUE FOR ENHANCED
COMPENSATION. (a) Beginning with the 2005–2006 school year, a
school district must use at least 50 percent of all state and local
maintenance and operations revenue in excess of the level expended
in the 2004–2005 school year for the purpose of providing enhanced
compensation to classroom teachers.
(b) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to
implement this section. The rules must ensure that classroom
teacher average salaries are increased by the lesser of:
(1) The $3,000 per year; or
(2) the amount that can be provided using 44 percent of
the increase in the district's maintenance and operations revenue
from the 2004–2005 school year.
(c) A school district that paid employees an additional
amount during each of the 2003–2004 and 2004–2005 school years to
compensate for reductions made in the health coverage or
compensation supplementation provided by former Article 3.50-8,
Insurance Code, may apply to the commissioner for authority to
provide a lesser amount of enhanced compensation than the amount
otherwise required by this section, to the extent equitable
considering the additional compensation provided by the district
during the 2003–2004 and 2004–2005 school years.