Bill Text: TX HB197 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-13 - Referred to Public Education [HB197 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB197-Introduced.html

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86R2690 MEW-D
By: Reynolds H.B. No. 197

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) $400.
(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 $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; 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.