Amend HB 2399 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to read as follows and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly: SECTION ____. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 21.4021 to read as follows: Sec. 21.4021. SALARIES IN DISTRICTS ESTABLISHING LOCAL MINIMUM HIRING SCHEDULE. (a) This section applies only to a school district that establishes a local minimum hiring schedule that prescribes the minimum salary, based on the employee's level of experience, that the district will pay a new employee, without prescribing a minimum salary applicable to subsequent years of that employee's employment with the district. (b) A school district to which this section applies that pays each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time nurse a greater amount than the minimum monthly salary to which the employee is entitled under Section 21.402 is not required by this code to provide annual pay increases based on the employee's level of experience. (c) If the minimum salaries prescribed by Section 21.402 are increased and the state provides additional funding for the amount of that increase, a school district to which this section applies is not required to pay an employee more than the sum of the additional funding per employee provided by the state and the employee's salary for the school year immediately preceding the school year for which the additional state funding is provided. (d) To the extent of any conflict between Section 21.402 and this section, Section 21.402 prevails.