Bill Text: TX HB61 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB61 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB61-Introduced.html
  82R1443 PAM-D
 
  By: Martinez H.B. No. 61
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of
  public schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 21.402(a), (b), and (d), Education
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), (e), or (f), a
  school district must pay each classroom teacher, full-time
  librarian, full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, or
  full-time school nurse not less than the minimum monthly salary[,
  based on the employee's level of experience in addition to other
  factors, as determined by commissioner rule,] determined as
  provided by Subsection (b). [the following formula:
  [MS = SF x FS
  [where:
         ["MS" is the minimum monthly salary;
         ["SF" is the applicable salary factor specified by Subsection
  (c); and
         ["FS" is the amount, as determined by the commissioner under
  Subsection (b), of state and local funds per weighted student,
  including funds provided under Section 42.2516, available to a
  district eligible to receive state assistance under Section 42.302
  with a maintenance and operations tax rate per $100 of taxable value
  equal to the product of the state compression percentage, as
  determined under Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50, except that
  the amount of state and local funds per weighted student does not
  include the amount attributable to the increase in the guaranteed
  level made by Chapter 1187, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2001.]
         (b)  The commissioner shall adopt rules to establish a method
  for annually setting a salary schedule for classroom teachers,
  full-time librarians, full-time counselors certified under
  Subchapter B, and full-time school nurses based on the employee's
  level of experience. The commissioner's method must provide a
  salary level for each year of experience from 0 years through 20
  years. The commissioner shall ensure that the salary schedule is
  consistent with the national average salary, based on experience,
  for those employees as determined by statistics gathered by the
  National Center for Education Statistics or a similar independent
  education-oriented institution. Not later than June 1 of each year,
  the commissioner shall determine, based on the salary schedule, the
  minimum monthly salary for each classroom teacher, full-time
  librarian, full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, and
  full-time nurse [the amount of state and local funds per weighted
  student available, for purposes of Subsection (a), to a district
  described by that subsection] for the following school year.
         (d)  A classroom teacher, full-time speech pathologist,
  full-time librarian, full-time counselor certified under
  Subchapter B, or full-time school nurse employed by a school
  district in the 2011-2012 [2010-2011] 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
  2011-2012 [2010-2011] school year.
         SECTION 2.  Section 21.403(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  A teacher, librarian, counselor, or nurse shall advance
  one level [step] on the minimum salary schedule established by
  commissioner rule under Section 21.402 for each year of experience
  as a teacher, librarian, counselor, or nurse until level [step] 20
  is reached.
         SECTION 3.  Section 42.2516, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
         (e-1)  The amount of state aid or credit to which a school
  district is entitled under Section 42.2518 is in addition to the
  amount of revenue to which the district is entitled under
  Subsection (b).
         SECTION 4.  Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 42.2518 to read as follows:
         Sec. 42.2518.  ADDITIONAL STATE AID OR CREDIT AGAINST COST
  OF ATTENDANCE CREDITS FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES. (a) For
  each school year, 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, as determined by the
  commissioner, equal to the difference between the district's salary
  cost under Section 21.402, as amended by __.B. ___, Acts of the 82nd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, for all classroom teachers,
  full-time librarians, full-time counselors certified under
  Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by
  the district and an amount equal to what the district's salary costs
  would have been for that school year under Section 21.402, as it
  existed before amendment by __.B. ___, Acts of the 82nd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2011.
         (b)  A school district that is required to take action under
  Chapter 41 to reduce its wealth per student to the equalized wealth
  level is entitled to a credit, in the amount of state aid to which
  the district is entitled under this section, against the total
  amount required under Section 41.093 for the district to purchase
  attendance credits.
         (c)  A determination by the commissioner under this section
  is final and may not be appealed.
         (d)  The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this
  section.
         SECTION 5.  Section 21.402(c), Education Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 6.  Not later than January 1, 2012, the commissioner
  of education shall adopt rules to establish a method for annually
  setting a salary schedule as provided by Section 21.402(b),
  Education Code, as amended by this Act.
         SECTION 7.  This Act applies beginning with the 2012-2013
  school year.
         SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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