By:  Farabee                                                      H.B. No. 3331



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the minimum salary schedule for public school 
employees.        
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 21.402, subsection (a), Education Code 
is amended as follows:

(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), (e), or (f), a school 
district must pay each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, 
full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, educational 
diagnostician, speech pathologist or full-time school nurse not 
less that 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, 
except that the amount of state and local funds per weighted student 
does not include the amount attributable to the increase in the 
guaranteed level made by H.B. No. 3342, Acts of the 77th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           
	SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the 
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.