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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.