Bill Text: TX HB770 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the salary and wages paid to public school employees; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-28 - Referred to Appropriations [HB770 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB770-Introduced.html
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By: Allen | H.B. No. 770 |
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relating to the salary and wages paid to public school employees; | ||
making an appropriation. | ||
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 2023-2024 | ||
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 2023-2024 school year under the district's salary | ||
schedule for the 2022-2023 school year, if that schedule had been in | ||
effect for the 2023-2024 school year, including any local | ||
supplement and any money representing a career ladder supplement | ||
the employee would have received in the 2023-2024 school year; and | ||
(2) $400. | ||
(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September | ||
1, 2024. | ||
(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 2023-2024 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 2023-2024 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 [ |
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section. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 48.2521 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 48.2521. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR | ||
CERTAIN PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES. (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 | ||
product of $4,000 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. | ||
(b) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The amount of $1 billion is appropriated | ||
from the economic stabilization fund to the foundation school fund | ||
for distribution by the commissioner of education during the state | ||
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2023, to school districts to | ||
provide one-time retention bonuses to district support staff. | ||
(b) The commissioner of education shall distribute the | ||
amount appropriated under this section to school districts on the | ||
basis of the number of full-time district employees, other than | ||
administrators and employees subject to the minimum salary schedule | ||
under Section 21.402, Education Code. | ||
(c) Each school district may use funds distributed under | ||
this section only to increase the salary that would otherwise be | ||
provided to district employees described by Subsection (b) of this | ||
section. | ||
(d) This section takes effect only if this Act is approved | ||
by 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. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 6. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |