86R3358 TSR-D
 
  By: King of Hemphill H.B. No. 953
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain contributions by an open-enrollment charter
  school to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 825.405, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (b), (e), and (f)
  to read as follows:
         (a-1)  For members who are employed by an open-enrollment
  charter school and who would be entitled to a minimum salary under
  Section 21.402, Education Code, if employed by a school district,
  the charter school shall pay the state's contribution on the
  portion of the member's salary that exceeds the applicable
  statutory minimum salary under that section.
         (b)  For purposes of Subsection (a) [this section]:
               (1)  the statutory minimum salary for certain school
  personnel under Section 21.402, Education Code, is the salary
  provided by that section multiplied by the cost of education
  adjustment applicable under Section 42.102, Education Code, to the
  district in which the member is employed; and
               (2)  the statutory minimum salary for members who would
  have been entitled to the minimum salary for certain school
  personnel under former Section 16.056, Education Code, as that
  section existed on January 1, 1995, is a minimum salary computed in
  the same manner as the minimum salary for certain school personnel
  under Section 21.402, Education Code, multiplied by the cost of
  education adjustment applicable under Section 42.102, Education
  Code, to the district in which the member is employed.
         (e)  After the end of each school year, the retirement system
  shall certify to the commissioner of education:
               (1)  the names of any employers [employing districts]
  that have failed to remit, within the period required by Section
  825.408, all contributions required under this section for the
  school year; and
               (2)  the amounts of the unpaid contributions.
         (f)  If the commissioner of education receives a
  certification under Subsection (e), the commissioner shall direct
  the comptroller of public accounts to withhold the amount
  certified, plus interest computed at the rate and in the manner
  provided by Section 825.408, from the first state money payable to
  the employer [school district]. The amount withheld shall be
  deposited to the credit of the appropriate accounts of the
  retirement system.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.