Bill Text: TX HB399 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to classroom teachers employed by public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB399 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB399-Introduced.html

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85R2440 PAM-D
By: Allen H.B. No. 399

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the salary paid to classroom teachers employed by
public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.402, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsections (c-2), (c-3), and
(d) to read as follows:
(c-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for the 2017-2018
school year, a classroom teacher 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) $400.
(c-3) Subsection (c-2) and this subsection expire September
1, 2018.
(d) A classroom teacher 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 [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 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 2017-2018
school year.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.