Bill Text: TX HB198 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a study on an average pay increase for classroom teachers, the creation of certain teacher designations, teacher retention, and a teacher quality allotment under the Foundation School Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 44-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-11 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB198 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB198-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Clardy, et al. | H.B. No. 198 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 198: | |||
| By: Huberty | C.S.H.B. No. 198 | ||
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| relating to a study on an average pay increase for classroom | ||
| teachers, the creation of certain teacher designations, teacher | ||
| retention, and a teacher quality allotment under the Foundation | ||
| School Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.010 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.010. STUDY ON AVERAGE PAY INCREASE FOR TEACHERS, | ||
| TEACHER DESIGNATIONS, TEACHER RETENTION, AND TEACHER QUALITY | ||
| ALLOTMENT. (a) A committee is established to study and make | ||
| recommendations regarding an average pay increase for classroom | ||
| teachers, the creation of certain teacher designations, teacher | ||
| retention, and a teacher quality allotment under the Foundation | ||
| School Program. | ||
| (b) The committee is composed of 13 members, consisting of: | ||
| (1) six members appointed by the lieutenant governor; | ||
| (2) six members appointed by the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives; and | ||
| (3) the commissioner or the commissioner's designee. | ||
| (c) The appointments made by the lieutenant governor must | ||
| consist of: | ||
| (1) three members of the senate; | ||
| (2) a leader of the community; | ||
| (3) a classroom teacher; and | ||
| (4) a superintendent of a school district. | ||
| (d) The appointments made by the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives must consist of: | ||
| (1) three members of the house of representatives; | ||
| (2) a leader of the business community; | ||
| (3) a classroom teacher; and | ||
| (4) an elected member of the board of trustees of a | ||
| school district. | ||
| (e) The lieutenant governor and speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives shall each designate a co-chair from among the | ||
| committee members. | ||
| (f) The recommendations regarding an average pay increase | ||
| for classroom teachers must include recommendations on: | ||
| (1) a requirement that school districts and | ||
| open-enrollment charter schools ensure that the average annual pay | ||
| for classroom teachers employed at the district or school is | ||
| either: | ||
| (A) at least $1,000 more than the average annual | ||
| pay for classroom teachers employed at that district or school | ||
| during the school year immediately preceding the previous school | ||
| year; or | ||
| (B) equal to or greater than $51,000; and | ||
| (2) exceptions to the requirements described by | ||
| Subdivision (1). | ||
| (g) The recommendations regarding the creation of teacher | ||
| designations must include recommendations on: | ||
| (1) the creation of a tiered approach to teacher | ||
| designations that includes designations as an accomplished, | ||
| distinguished, or master teacher; | ||
| (2) the eligibility criteria, requirements, and | ||
| credentials required for designation as an accomplished, | ||
| distinguished, or master teacher; and | ||
| (3) methods of finance for a school district, | ||
| open-enrollment charter school, or the state to pay for a classroom | ||
| teacher to pursue a teacher designation. | ||
| (h) The recommendations regarding teacher retention must | ||
| include recommendations on how to retain quality teachers, | ||
| including mentoring programs. | ||
| (i) The recommendations regarding a teacher quality | ||
| allotment must include recommendations on creating an allotment | ||
| under the Foundation School Program that provides school districts | ||
| and open-enrollment charter schools funding for classroom teachers | ||
| with teacher designations, including increased funding for | ||
| classroom teachers who are assigned by a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school to a campus at which a majority of | ||
| students are educationally disadvantaged or who are employed by a | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school that qualifies as | ||
| rural. | ||
| (j) Not later than September 1, 2018, the committee shall | ||
| submit to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the | ||
| house of representatives a report on the results of the study and | ||
| any recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
| (k) This section expires January 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
