Bill Text: TX HB217 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Appropriations [HB217 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB217-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez | H.B. No. 217 |
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relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of | ||
public schools; 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 2017-2018 | ||
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 teacher would have received | ||
for the 2017-2018 school year under the district's salary schedule | ||
for the 2016-2017 school year, if that schedule had been in effect | ||
for the 2017-2018 school year, including any local supplement and | ||
any money representing a career ladder supplement the teacher would | ||
have received in the 2017-2018 school year; and | ||
(2) $250. | ||
(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September | ||
1, 2018. | ||
(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 2017-2018 school year is, | ||
as long as the teacher is employed by the same district, entitled to | ||
a salary that is at least equal to the salary the teacher received | ||
for the 2017-2018 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. 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; [ |
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(2) the product of $2,500 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. The amount of $2.5 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, 2017, to school districts to | ||
provide salary increases as provided by Section 42.2513, Education | ||
Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this section: | ||
(1) 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; and | ||
(2) 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. | ||
(b) This Act takes effect only if it receives 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. |