Bill Text: TX HB24 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-31 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB24 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB24-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-31 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB24 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB24-Introduced.html
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By: Darby | H.B. No. 24 |
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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 | |||||||||||||
amending Subsections (c) and (g) and adding Subsections (c-2), | |||||||||||||
(c-3), and (d) to read as follows: | |||||||||||||
(c) The salary factors per step are as follows: | |||||||||||||
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(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 employee 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 employee would have received in the 2017-2018 school year; and | |||||||||||||
(2) $100. | |||||||||||||
(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 employee is employed by the same district, entitled | |||||||||||||
to a salary that is at least equal to the salary the employee | |||||||||||||
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 $1,000 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. (a) In addition to other amounts appropriated in | |||||||||||||
S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the | |||||||||||||
General Appropriations Act), to the Texas Education Agency for the | |||||||||||||
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019, $848,000,000 is | |||||||||||||
appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to the agency for | |||||||||||||
use by the agency during the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, | |||||||||||||
2019, in supporting salary increases as provided by Section 21.402, | |||||||||||||
Education Code, as amended by this Act. | |||||||||||||
(b) It is the intent of the legislature that out of the | |||||||||||||
appropriations made under Subsection (a) of this section: | |||||||||||||
(1) the Texas Education Agency transfer to the Teacher | |||||||||||||
Retirement System of Texas an amount of $63,000,000 as the state's | |||||||||||||
contribution towards retirement benefits under Chapter 824, | |||||||||||||
Government Code, and health benefit plan coverage under the Texas | |||||||||||||
Public School Employees Group Insurance Program authorized by | |||||||||||||
Chapter 1575, Insurance Code; and | |||||||||||||
(2) each professional public school employee subject | |||||||||||||
to the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402, Education | |||||||||||||
Code, receive a salary increase. | |||||||||||||
SECTION 4. Section 21.402(c-1), Education Code, is | |||||||||||||
repealed. | |||||||||||||
SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | |||||||||||||
school year. | |||||||||||||
SECTION 6. (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. |