Bill Text: TX HB513 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to educator financial incentives and salary contingencies based on student performance on certain assessment instruments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-16 - Referred to Public Education [HB513 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB513-Introduced.html
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| By: Moody | H.B. No. 513 | |
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| relating to educator financial incentives and salary contingencies | ||
| based on student performance on certain assessment instruments. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.416 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.416. CERTAIN INCENTIVES AND SALARY CONTINGENCIES | ||
| PROHIBITED. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), a school district may | ||
| not: | ||
| (1) offer or reward a financial incentive to an | ||
| educator that is contingent on student performance on an assessment | ||
| instrument administered under Chapter 39; or | ||
| (2) make any portion of an educator's salary | ||
| contingent on student performance on an assessment instrument | ||
| administered under Chapter 39. | ||
| (b) This section does not affect the use of any federal | ||
| funds disbursed for a purpose otherwise prohibited under Subsection | ||
| (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 21.702(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) In establishing the program, the commissioner shall | ||
| adopt program guidelines in accordance with this subchapter for a | ||
| school district to follow in developing a local educator excellence | ||
| innovation plan under Section 21.704. The guidelines must prohibit | ||
| a school district from providing strategic compensation or other | ||
| alternative teacher compensation on the basis of student | ||
| performance on an assessment instrument administered under Chapter | ||
| 39, as prohibited under Section 21.416. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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 September 1, 2015. | ||
