86R13893 MEW-D
 
  By: Allen H.B. No. 3131
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of
  public schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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, 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 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 employee would have received in the 2019-2020 school year; and
               (2)  $500.
         (c-3)  Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September
  1, 2020.
         (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 2019-2020 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 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 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 $5,000 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.  Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 4.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.