85S10888 MEW-F
	By: Darby, Ashby, Gooden, et al.	H.B. No. 24

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of
	public schools; making an appropriation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsections (c) and (g) and adding Subsections (c-2),
	(c-3), and (d) to read as follows:
	(c)  The salary factors per step are as follows:
	0 1 2 3 4
	.5658 [.5464] .5776 [.5582] .5893 [.5698] .6010 [.5816] .6259 [.6064]
	5 6 7 8 9
	.6506 [.6312] .6755 [.6560] .6984 [.6790] .7202 [.7008] .7409 [.7214]
	10 11 12 13 14
	.7603 [.7408] .7786 [.7592] .7963 [.7768] .8125 [.7930] .8280 [.8086]
	15 16 17 18 19
	.8426 [.8232] .8566 [.8372] .8696 [.8502] .8821 [.8626] .8938 [.8744]
	.9049 [.8854]
	(c-2)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2017-2018
	school year, a classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
	school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school
	nurse is entitled to a monthly salary that is at least equal to the
	sum of:
	(1)  the monthly salary the employee would have
	received for the 2017-2018 school year under the district's salary
	schedule for the 2016-2017 school year, if that schedule had been in
	effect for the 2017-2018 school year, including any local
	supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement
	the employee would have received in the 2017-2018 school year; and
	(2)  $100.
	(c-3)  Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September
	1, 2018.
	(d)  A classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
	school counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school
	nurse employed by a school district in the 2017-2018 school year is,
	as long as the employee is employed by the same district, entitled
	to a salary that is at least equal to the salary the employee
	received for the 2017-2018 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 2.  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, full-time librarians, full-time school
	counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time
	school nurses employed by the district; and
	(3)  the product of $250 multiplied by the number of
	part-time district employees, other than administrators.
	SECTION 3.  (a) In addition to other amounts appropriated in
	S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the
	General Appropriations Act), to the Texas Education Agency for the
	state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019, $848,000,000 is
	appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to the agency for
	use by the agency during the state fiscal biennium ending August 31,
	2019, in supporting salary increases as provided by Section 21.402,
	Education Code, as amended by this Act.
	(b)  It is the intent of the legislature that out of the
	appropriations made under Subsection (a) of this section:
	(1)  the Texas Education Agency transfer to the Teacher
	Retirement System of Texas an amount of $63,000,000 as the state's
	contribution towards retirement benefits under Chapter 824,
	Government Code, and health benefit plan coverage under the Texas
	Public School Employees Group Insurance Program authorized by
	Chapter 1575, Insurance Code; and
	(2)  each professional public school employee subject
	to the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402, Education
	Code, receive a salary increase.
	SECTION 4.  Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 5.  This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
	school year.
	SECTION 6.  (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.