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SECTION 1. Subchapter I,
Chapter 21, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 21.417 to read as
follows:
Sec. 21.417. CLASSROOM
TEACHER STATE CAREER BONUS. (a) Subject to the availability of amounts
appropriated for purposes of this section, the agency shall provide an
annual bonus to each classroom teacher with at least six years of teaching
experience at the beginning of the school year during which the bonus is
provided.
(b) The amount of the
bonus provided to each classroom teacher during any school year shall be
established by appropriation, and the appropriation may provide for
different bonus amounts during a school year based on the number of years
of teaching experience.
(c) A bonus provided to a
classroom teacher under this section is not considered in determining
whether a school district is paying the teacher the minimum monthly salary
under Section 21.402.
(d) The agency shall
provide a bonus under this section only to a person employed as a classroom
teacher at the time the bonus is paid.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 2. (a) The amount
of $193,000,000 of the unencumbered appropriations from the general revenue
fund for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019, made by S.B. 1,
Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General
Appropriations Act), to the Health and Human Services Commission is
transferred to the Texas Education Agency to be used by the agency to
provide the following bonuses to public school classroom teachers under
Section 21.417, Education Code, as added by this Act:
(1) a bonus of $600 to be
paid in September 2018 for each classroom teacher with at least 6 but less
than 11 years of teaching experience at the beginning of the 2018-2019
school year; and
(2) a bonus of $1,000 to be
paid in September 2018 for each classroom teacher with at least 11 years of
teaching experience at the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year.
(b) The Health and Human
Services Commission shall identify the strategies and objectives out of
which the transfer under Subsection (a) of this section is to be made.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 3. (a) The amount
of $212,000,000 of the unencumbered
appropriations from the general revenue fund for the state fiscal biennium
ending August 31, 2019, made by S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations Act), to the Health and
Human Services Commission is transferred to the Teacher Retirement
System of Texas and may be used by the
retirement system during that state fiscal biennium to provide support to
participants in the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program
authorized by Chapter 1575, Insurance Code. The
Health and Human Services Commission shall identify the strategies and
objectives out of which the transfer is to be made.
(b) The Teacher Retirement
System of Texas may use the money
transferred under Subsection (a) of this section to:
(1) reduce costs for participants, including premiums, deductibles, and prescription drugs, during the 2018 and 2019 plan
years; and
(2) reduce the premium and maximum out-of-pocket
cost for an enrolled adult child with a mental disability or a physical
incapacity during the 2018 and 2019 plan years.
(c)
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas shall determine the most efficient
allocation of the money transferred under Subsection (a) of this section to
achieve the maximum benefit for participants in the program.
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SECTION 1. The amount of $212.7 million is appropriated from the
economic stabilization fund to the retired school employees group insurance
fund established under Section 1575.301, Insurance Code, for use by
the Teacher Retirement System of Texas to
decrease the costs for the 2018 and 2019 plan years for participants
in the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program authorized by
Chapter 1575, Insurance Code.
SECTION 2. The Teacher
Retirement System of Texas may use funds
appropriated by this Act only to:
(1) decrease the premiums and deductibles that would otherwise be paid during the
2018 and 2019 plan years by participants
in the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program authorized by
Chapter 1575, Insurance Code; and
(2) reduce costs for an
enrolled adult child with a mental disability or a physical incapacity
during the 2018 and 2019 plan years.
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SECTION 5.
This Act takes effect
immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected
to each house as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
If this Act does not receive
the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st
day after the last day of the legislative session.
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SECTION 3. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this
section:
(1) this Act takes effect
immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected
to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution;
and
(2) if this Act does not
receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect on
the 91st day after the last day of the legislative session.
(b)
This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote of two-thirds of the
members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by Section
49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution.
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