Amend SB 19 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 4 of the bill, adding transition language (page 2, lines 46 and 47), strike Subsection (b) of that section and substitute the following appropriately lettered subsection:
(__) Sections 21.402 and 42.2513, Education Code, as amended by this Act, Section 21.418, Education Code, as added by this Act, and the repeal by this Act of Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, apply beginning with the 2019-2020 school year.
(2) In SECTION 5 of the bill, in the effective date language (page 2, line 48), strike "This Act" and substitute "Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this Act".
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (c-2), (c-3), and (d) and amending Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2019-2020 school year, a classroom teacher is entitled to a monthly salary that is at least equal to the sum of:
(1) the monthly salary the teacher would have received for the 2019-2020 school year under the district's salary schedule for the 2018-2019 school year, if that schedule had been in effect for the 2019-2020 school year, including any local supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement the teacher would have received in the 2019-2020 school year; and
(2) $100.
(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September 1, 2020.
(d) A classroom teacher employed by a school district in the 2019-2020 school year is, as long as the teacher is employed by the same district, entitled to a salary that is at least equal to the salary the teacher received for the 2019-2020 school year.
(g) The commissioner may adopt rules to govern the application of this section, including rules that:
(1) require the payment of a minimum salary under this section to a person employed in more than one capacity for which a minimum salary is provided and whose combined employment in those capacities constitutes full-time employment; and
(2) specify the credentials a person must hold to be considered a [speech pathologist or] school nurse under this section.
SECTION ____. Effective September 1, 2019, Section 42.2513(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A school district, including a school district that is otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled to state aid in an amount equal to the sum of:
(1) the product of $500 multiplied by the number of full-time district employees, other than administrators or employees subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402; [and]
(2) the product of $1,000 multiplied by the number of classroom teachers employed by the district; and
(3) the product of $250 multiplied by the number of part-time district employees, other than administrators.
SECTION ____. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is repealed.