85R6357 YDB-D
 
  By: Alonzo H.B. No. 1615
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a salary career ladder for certain state employees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 659, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 659.0111 to read as follows:
         Sec. 659.0111.  SALARY CAREER LADDER FOR CERTAIN STATE
  EMPLOYEES. (a) This section applies only to a state employee who
  is employed by a state agency in a position classified under Chapter
  654 and whose annual salary is less than $75,000.
         (b)  The executive director or governing body of a state
  agency shall adopt a salary career ladder for agency employees
  described by Subsection (a). The salary career ladder must base a
  state employee's salary on the employee's designated classification
  in the position classification plan under Chapter 654 and years of
  service with the agency.
         (c)  A state employee to whom the salary career ladder
  applies and who receives an overall evaluation of at least
  satisfactory in the employee's most recent annual evaluation is
  entitled to an annual salary increase during each of the employee's
  first 10 years of service in a designated classification in the
  position classification plan under Chapter 654, equal to one-tenth
  of the difference between:
               (1)  the employee's current annual salary; and
               (2)  the minimum annual salary of a state employee in
  the next highest classification.
         SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, but not later than October 1, 2017, the executive
  director or governing body of each state agency subject to Section
  659.0111, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall adopt a
  salary career ladder for state employees as required by that
  section. Beginning the first day of the month following the date on
  which the executive director or governing body adopts the salary
  career ladder, each state employee to whom the salary career ladder
  applies and who receives an overall evaluation of at least
  satisfactory in the employee's most recent annual evaluation is
  entitled to a salary in an amount that meets or exceeds the amount
  determined according to the salary career ladder for the employee's
  classification and years of service with the agency.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.